Rapid evolution of energetic lightning strokes in Mediterranean winter storms
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11320/25:10500860
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-00965-6" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-00965-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-00965-6" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41612-025-00965-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rapid evolution of energetic lightning strokes in Mediterranean winter storms
Original language description
The occurrence of winter lightning concentrates in a few specific regions in the world, including the Mediterranean, where electromagnetic signatures of this interesting dangerous phenomenon have not yet been studied in detail. We investigate the initial stage of energetic negative cloud-to-ground winter lightning flashes in the West Mediterranean region using broadband magnetic field measurements (5 kHz–90 MHz) recorded in winter 2014/2015, which was unusually rich in global lightning activity. We found that the winter pre-stroke processes leading to the high peak current lightning (<−100 kA) lasted on average only 1.7 ms (in one case only 220 µs). Rapid evolution of energetic lightning indicates that leader initiation charge centers can be as low as 500 m above the ground. The measured distribution of pre-stroke pulse amplitudes and interpulse intervals can be used to model the charge structure in the lower thundercloud dipole and to derive the properties of in-cloud lightning channels.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
ISSN
2397-3722
e-ISSN
2397-3722
Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
71
UT code for WoS article
001432671300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85218912095