The teams research was published in two papers inNaturethis morning.
One of the papersdescribesthe frequent emission of long-duration gamma-ray glows across sweeping parts of the atmosphere during tropical thunderstorms.
FGFs are remarkably different from both TGFs and glows but carry some features of both, Marisaldi said.
An artist’s concept of the aircraft campaign above gamma-ray-emitting thunderclouds.Illustration: The ALOFT team / Mount Visual
This is why we figure them as the missing link between the two phenomena.
Therefore, it is intriguing to hypothesize a causal connection between the two phenomena.
Lightning isa spark of electricityin Earths atmosphere that either stays up there orhits the groundin brilliant tendrils of energy.
Tendrils of lightning from a tropical thunderstorm in Colombia. Photo: Oscar van der Velde
Despite about 40,000 thunderstorms happening on Earth each day, lightningwhich often is produced by thunderstormsremains an unknown quantity.
Positron feedback, Dwyer added, is the last mechanism standing.
The teams findings arent entirely shockinglightning aside, different types of gamma radiation were previously known from tropical storms.
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