Highly dynamic gamma-ray emissions are common in tropical thunderclouds.

Gamma Rays Tropical Climate Time Factors Oceans and Seas Wind Electrons

Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2024
Historique:
received: 04 02 2024
accepted: 07 08 2024
medline: 3 10 2024
pubmed: 3 10 2024
entrez: 2 10 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Thunderstorms emit fluxes of gamma rays known as gamma-ray glows

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07936-6 PMID: 39358522
pubmed: 39358522
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07936-6
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07936-6
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

57-60

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© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

M Marisaldi (M)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Martino.Marisaldi@uib.no.
Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory of Bologna, National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy. Martino.Marisaldi@uib.no.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4000-3789

N Østgaard (N)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Nikolai.Ostgaard@uib.no.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2572-7033

A Mezentsev (A)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Andrey.Mezentsev@uib.no.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3471-7267

T Lang (T)

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA.

J E Grove (JE)

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0586-193X

D Shy (D)

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3699-265X

G M Heymsfield (GM)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

P Krehbiel (P)

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, NM, Socorro, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2963-1837

R J Thomas (RJ)

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, NM, Socorro, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6041-9394

M Stanley (M)

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, NM, Socorro, USA.

D Sarria (D)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

C Schultz (C)

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA.

R Blakeslee (R)

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA.

M G Quick (MG)

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0645-5159

H Christian (H)

Department of Atmospheric Science, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA.

I Adams (I)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

R Kroodsma (R)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

N Lehtinen (N)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

K Ullaland (K)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

S Yang (S)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

B Hasan Qureshi (BH)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

J Søndergaard (J)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

B Husa (B)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1956-217X

D Walker (D)

Department of Atmospheric Science, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8207-9653

M Bateman (M)

Department of Atmospheric Science, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA.

D Mach (D)

Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, USA.

S Cummer (S)

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

M Pazos (M)

Instituto de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y Cambio Climático, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.

Y Pu (Y)

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

P Bitzer (P)

Department of Atmospheric Science, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6665-9778

M Fullekrug (M)

University of Bath, Bath, UK.

M Cohen (M)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7920-5759

J Montanya (J)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

C Younes (C)

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9685-8196

O van der Velde (O)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1638-6628

J A Roncancio (JA)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7041-6728

J A Lopez (JA)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

M Urbani (M)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9148-2740

A Santos (A)

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

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