• DOI:10.1038/NGEO162
Corpus ID: 8753629

Upward electrical discharges from thunderstorms

@article{Krehbiel2007UpwardED,
  title={Upward electrical discharges from thunderstorms},
  author={P. Krehbiel and J. Riousset and V. Pasko and Ronald J. Thomas and W. Rison and M. Stanley and H. Edens},
  journal={Nature Geoscience},
  year={2007},
  volume={1},
  pages={233-237}
}

• P. Krehbiel, J. Riousset, +4 authors H. Edens
• Published 2007
• Environmental Science, Geology
• Nature Geoscience

Blue jets, gigantic jets, cloud-to-cloud discharges and cloud-to-ground lightning are all electrical discharges from thunderclouds. An analysis of numerical simulations and observations of these phenomena places them all in a unifying framework. Thunderstorms occasionally produce upward discharges, called blue jets and gigantic jets, that propagate out of the storm top towards or up to the ionosphere1,2,3,4. Whereas the various types of intracloud and cloud-to-ground lightning are reasonably… Expand