Runaway electron mechanism of air breakdown and preconditioning during a thunderstorm
Abstract
The possibility is considered of an avalanche-type increase of the number of runaway electrons leading to a new type of electric breakdown of gases. This type of breakdown could take place in the atmosphere during a thunderstorm stimulated by cosmic ray secondaries.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- June 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0375-9601(92)90348-P
- Bibcode:
- 1992PhLA..165..463G