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DOI | 10.1002/2016JD025949 |
Do cosmic ray air showers initiate lightning?: A statistical analysis of cosmic ray air showers and lightning mapping array data | |
Hare, B. M.1; Dwyer, J. R.2; Winner, L. H.3; Uman, M. A.4; Jordan, D. M.4; Kotovsky, D. A.4; Caicedo, J. A.4; Wilkes, R. A.4; Carvalho, F. L.4; Pilkey, J. T.4; Ngin, T. K.4; Gamerota, W. R.4; Rassoul, H. K.5 | |
2017-08-16 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES |
ISSN | 2169-897X |
EISSN | 2169-8996 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 122期号:15 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Netherlands; USA |
英文摘要 | It has been argued in the technical literature, and widely reported in the popular press, that cosmic ray air showers (CRASs) can initiate lightning via a mechanism known as relativistic runaway electron avalanche (RREA), where large numbers of high-energy and low-energy electrons can, somehow, cause the local atmosphere in a thundercloud to transition to a conducting state. In response to this claim, other researchers have published simulations showing that the electron density produced by RREA is far too small to be able to affect the conductivity in the cloud sufficiently to initiate lightning. In this paper, we compare 74days of cosmic ray air shower data collected in north central Florida during 2013-2015, the recorded CRASs having primary energies on the order of 10(16)eV to 10(18)eV and zenith angles less than 38 degrees, with Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) data, and we show that there is no evidence that the detected cosmic ray air showers initiated lightning. Furthermore, we show that the average probability of any of our detected cosmic ray air showers to initiate a lightning flash can be no more than 5%. If all lightning flashes were initiated by cosmic ray air showers, then about 1.6% of detected CRASs would initiate lightning; therefore, we do not have enough data to exclude the possibility that lightning flashes could be initiated by cosmic ray air showers. |
英文关键词 | lightning cosmic ray initiation RREA LMA |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000408349500029 |
WOS关键词 | EXTENSIVE ATMOSPHERIC SHOWER ; RUNAWAY-BREAKDOWN ; THUNDERSTORMS ; LOFAR |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/32415 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Groningen, KVI Ctr Adv Radiat Technol, Groningen, Netherlands; 2.Univ New Hampshire, Dept Phys & Space Sci Ctr EOS, Durham, NH 03824 USA; 3.Univ Florida, Dept Stat, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA; 4.Univ Florida, Dept Elect Engn, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA; 5.Florida Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hare, B. M.,Dwyer, J. R.,Winner, L. H.,et al. Do cosmic ray air showers initiate lightning?: A statistical analysis of cosmic ray air showers and lightning mapping array data[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,2017,122(15). |
APA | Hare, B. M..,Dwyer, J. R..,Winner, L. H..,Uman, M. A..,Jordan, D. M..,...&Rassoul, H. K..(2017).Do cosmic ray air showers initiate lightning?: A statistical analysis of cosmic ray air showers and lightning mapping array data.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,122(15). |
MLA | Hare, B. M.,et al."Do cosmic ray air showers initiate lightning?: A statistical analysis of cosmic ray air showers and lightning mapping array data".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 122.15(2017). |
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