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An enhancement of the ionospheric sporadic‐E layer in response to negative polarity cloud‐to‐ground lightning

Davis, C. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6411-5649 and Lo , K. H. (2008) An enhancement of the ionospheric sporadic‐E layer in response to negative polarity cloud‐to‐ground lightning. Geophysical Research Letters, 35. L05815. ISSN 0094-8276

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031909

Abstract/Summary

Lightning data, collected using a Boltek Storm Tracker system installed at Chilton, UK, were used to investigate the mean response of the ionospheric sporadic-E layer to lightning strokes in a superposed epoch study. The lightning detector can discriminate between positive and negative lightning strokes and between cloud-to-ground ( CG) and inter-cloud ( IC) lightning. Superposed epoch studies carried out separately using these subsets of lightning strokes as trigger events have revealed that the dominant cause of the observed ionospheric enhancement in the Es layer is negative cloud-to-ground lightning.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
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ID Code:18463
Publisher:American Geophysical Union

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