期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 124, 期 1, 页码 287-298出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2018JD029272
关键词
terrestrial gamma-ray flahes; RHESSI; observationally weak; thunderstorms; hard radiation; Lightning
资金
- European Research Council under the European Union [320839]
- Research Council of Norway [208028/F50, 223252/F50]
- European Research Council (ERC) [320839] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) are sub-millisecond bursts of high energetic gamma radiation associated with intracloud flashes in thunderstorms. In this paper we use the simultaneity of lightning detections by World Wide Lightning Location Network to find TGFs in the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) data that are too faint to be identified by standard search algorithms. A similar approach has been used in an earlier paper, but here we expand the data set to include all years of RHESSI+World Wide Lightning Location Network data and show that there is a population of observationally weak TGFs all the way down to 0.22 of the RHESSI detection threshold (three counts in the detector). One should note that the majority of these are normal TGFs that are produced further away from the subsatellite point (and experience a 1/r(2) effect) or produced at higher latitudes with a lower tropoause and thus experience increased atmospheric attenuation. This supports the idea that the TGF production rate is higher than currently reported. We also show that compared to lightning flashes, TGFs are more partial to ocean and coastal regions than over land.
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