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Thunderstorm Ionization

Thunderstorm Ionization is a physical atmospheric process in which strong electric fields within thunderstorms accelerate free electrons to energies sufficient to ionize neutral air molecules, thereby enhancing electrical conductivity and facilitating charge multiplication in the troposphere.

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The electric field of a thundercloud and some of its effects

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson · Proceedings of the Physical Society of London · 1924 · 345 citations

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Electrical discharge from a thundercloud top to the lower ionosphere

Victor P. Pasko, M. A. Stanley, J. D. Mathews et al. · Nature · 2002 · 301 citations

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Heating, ionization and upward discharges in the mesosphere, due to intense quasi‐electrostatic thundercloud fields

Victor P. Pasko, U. S. Inan, Y. N. Taranenko et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 1995 · 224 citations · Full text

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Penetration of thundercloud electric fields into the ionosphere and magnetosphere: 1. Middle and subauroral latitudes

C. G. Park, M. Dejnakarintra · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1973 · 155 citations

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Recent Results from Studies of Electric Discharges in the Mesosphere

Torsten Neubert, M.J. Rycroft, Thomas Farges et al. · Surveys in Geophysics · 2008 · 135 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. US
    U. S. Inan

    Stanford University, United States

    9 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. VP
    Victor P. Pasko

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    4 publications · 715 citations

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  3. TF
    T. F. Bell

    Stanford University, United States

    4 publications · 387 citations

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  4. TN
    Torsten Neubert

    Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

    4 publications · 281 citations

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  5. AV
    A. V. Gurevich

    P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

    3 publications · 116 citations

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Institutions

166

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    2.1K citations

  2. Technical University of Denmark

    Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    490 citations

  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    618 citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    429 citations

  5. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    120 citations

  6. University of Otago

    Dunedin, New Zealand

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    164 citations

  7. University at Albany, State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    194 citations

  8. Sapienza University of Rome

    Rome, Italy

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    80 citations

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 19 publications · 1K citations

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  2. Geophysical Research Letters

    8 publications · 535 citations

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  3. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics

    5 publications · 128 citations

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  4. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

    JASTP · 6 publications · 142 citations

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  5. Nature

    3 publications · 429 citations

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