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A Possible Mechanism for Generation of Linear Lightning Flashes

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In spite of a long history of careful studies in linear lightning and the large number of publications dealing with it, it has not been clarified how the stepped leader is initiated, forms and propagates, as well as how lightning collects electric charge from individual drops in a thunderstorm cloud.

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  1. Faculty of Physics, Yaroslave University, Yaroslave, 150000, USSR

    A. I. Grigoryev & S. O. Shiryaeva

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  1. College of Science & Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14, Kanda Surugadai, 101, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshi Kikuchi (Professor, URSI Commission E Chairman) (Professor, URSI Commission E Chairman)

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Grigoryev, A.I., Shiryaeva, S.O. (1991). A Possible Mechanism for Generation of Linear Lightning Flashes. In: Kikuchi, H. (eds) Environmental and Space Electromagnetics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68162-5_7

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