Abstract
Experimental evidence for a causal relationship between lightning and explosive equatorial spread F is presented. It is proposed that explosive spread F is produced by rapidly growing plasma instabilities, which are triggered by sudden increases of the F region ambient electric fields due to the penetration of lightning fields into regions of weak or marginal instability.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1165-1167 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Geophysical Research Letters |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1984 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geophysics
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences