High-Speed, Time-Resolved Spectrum of a Lightning Stroke
- 28 January 1966
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 151 (3709) , 451-452
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.151.3709.451
Abstract
The first time-resolved spectrum of a return stroke between the cloud and ground has been obtained with a slitless spectrograph. The time for luminosity to rise from zero to its peak in a section of the channel is 10 microseconds or less, and the intense emission lines are attributed to singly ionized nitrogen atoms. Several faint lines persisting for approximately 150 microseconds are due to neutral nitrogen and oxygen atoms.Keywords
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