Flickering gamma-ray flashes, the missing link between gamma glows and TGFs.


Journal

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

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2024
Historique:
received: 01 02 2024
accepted: 31 07 2024
medline: 3 10 2024
pubmed: 3 10 2024
entrez: 2 10 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Two different hard-radiation phenomena are known to originate from thunderclouds: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs)

Identifiants

pubmed: 39358523
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07893-0
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07893-0
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

53-56

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

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Auteurs

N Østgaard (N)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Nikolai.Ostgaard@uib.no.

A Mezentsev (A)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Andrey.Mezentsev@uib.no.

M Marisaldi (M)

Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Martino.Marisaldi@uib.no.
Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory, National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy. Martino.Marisaldi@uib.no.

J E Grove (JE)

US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.

M Quick (M)

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

H Christian (H)

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

S Cummer (S)

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

M Pazos (M)

Instituto de Ciencias de la Atmosfera y Cambio Climático, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.

Y Pu (Y)

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

M Stanley (M)

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

D Sarria (D)

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

T Lang (T)

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

C Schultz (C)

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

R Blakeslee (R)

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 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.

G Heymsfield (G)

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.

D Walker (D)

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

D Shy (D)

US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.

M Bateman (M)

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

P Bitzer (P)

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

M Fullekrug (M)

University of Bath, Bath, UK.

M Cohen (M)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

J Montanya (J)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

C Younes (C)

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia.

O van der Velde (O)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

P Krehbiel (P)

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

J A Roncancio (JA)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

J A Lopez (JA)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

M Urbani (M)

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

A Santos (A)

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia.

D Mach (D)

Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, USA.

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