Photographic observations of streamers and steps in a cloud-to-air negative leader

被引：35

作者：

Edens, H. E. ^{[1
]}

Eack, K. B. ^{[2
,3
]}

Rison, W. ^{[3
,4
]}

Hunyady, S. J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] New Mexico Inst Min & Technol, Langmuir Lab Atmospher Res, Socorro, NM 87801 USA

[2] New Mexico Inst Min & Technol, Dept Phys, Socorro, NM 87801 USA

[3] New Mexico Inst Min & Technol, Langmuir Lab, Socorro, NM 87801 USA

[4] New Mexico Inst Min & Technol, Dept Elect Engn, Socorro, NM 87801 USA

来源：

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS | 2014年 / 41卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

leader step; intragroup flash; air discharge; corona brush; space leader; lightning mapping; ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES; INTRACLOUD;

D O I：

10.1002/2013GL059180

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

A color photograph has been obtained of a negative lightning leader in clear air at 10.3km altitude. The individual leader steps are resolved as relatively straight segments of at least similar to 200m in length, between sharp kinks (nodes) in the channel. Each node is accompanied by a group of streamers of similar to 100m in length. One node has an unconnected secondary leader with streamers at both ends. Lightning Mapping Array observations show that the leader was part of an intracloud(IC) flash. The observation shows that steps of negative leaders near 10km altitude are an order of magnitude longer than values reported in the literature for negative leaders near sea level. Since negative leaders propagate at comparable velocities at low and high altitudes, stepping occurs at a lower rate in IC flashes, which can explain why RFemissions from ICflashes are more intermittent than those from cloud-to-ground flashes.

引用

页码：1336 / 1342

页数：7

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