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Nature Photonics, 2022 A terawatt laser filament is shown to be able to guide lightning over a distance of 50 m in field trials on the Säntis mountain in the Swiss Alps. Lightning discharges between charged clouds and the Earth’s surface are responsible for considerable ...
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Variation of lightning-ignited wildfire patterns under climate change
Nature Communications, 2023 Lightning is the main precursor of natural wildfires and Long-Continuing-Current (LCC) lightning flashes are proposed to be the main igniters of lightning-ignited wildfires (LIW).
F. J. Pérez-Invernón +3 more
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Extratropical forests increasingly at risk due to lightning fires
Nature Geoscience, 2023 Fires can be ignited by people or by natural causes, which are almost exclusively lightning strikes. Discriminating between lightning and anthropogenic fires is paramount when estimating impacts of changing socioeconomic and climatological conditions on ...
Thomas A. J. Janssen +6 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Lightning-induced fire is the primary disturbance agent in boreal forests. Recent large fire years have been linked to anomalously high numbers of lightning-caused fire starts, yet the mechanisms regulating the probability of lightning ignition remain ...
Thomas D. Hessilt +6 more
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Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2022 Lightning is an electrical discharge — a ‘spark’ or ‘flash’ as charged regions in the atmosphere instantly balance themselves through this discharge. It is a beautiful and deadly naturally occurring phenomenon.
Unashish Mondal +3 more
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The WGLC global gridded lightning climatology and timeseries
Earth System Science Data, 2021 . Lightning is one of the most important atmospheric phenomena and has wide ranging influence on the Earth System, but few long-term observational datasets of lightning occurrence and distribution are currently freely available.
J. Kaplan, K. H. Lau
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Lightning occurrences and intensity over the Indian region: Long-term trends and future projections
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 . Lightning activities constitute the major destructive component of thunderstorms over India. Hence, understanding the long-term variabilities of lightning occurrence and intensity and their inter-relation with various causative factors is required ...
R. Chakraborty +3 more
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2020 The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2017, detecting optical signatures of lightning with storm‐scale horizontal resolution during both day and night.
R. Blakeslee +21 more
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Research on lightning transient distribution characteristics of cable-stayed bridges
暴雨灾害, 2023 Bridges are usually located at the junction of land and water, where the surrounding area is open terrain, making them to be easily damaged by lightning strikes.
Yajing SHI +4 more
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Discharged Payment Channels: Quantifying the Lightning Network's Resilience to Topology-Based Attacks [PDF]
2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), 2019 The Lightning Network is the most widely used payment channel network (PCN) to date, making it an attractive attack surface for adversaries. In this paper, we analyze the Lightning Network's PCN topology and investigate its resilience towards random ...
Elias Rohrer +2 more
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