In this review we describe a transient type of gas discharge which is commonly called a
streamer discharge, as well as a few related phenomena in pulsed discharges. Streamers …

In the last fifteen years radio detection made it back to the list of promising techniques for
extensive air showers, firstly, due to the installation and successful operation of digital radio …

Abstract Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics published the first Plasma Roadmap in 2012
consisting of the individual perspectives of 16 leading experts in the various sub-fields of low …

This paper introduces a novel metaheuristic optimization method called the lightning search
algorithm (LSA) to solve constraint optimization problems. It is based on the natural …

Recent reports on the formation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in water microdroplets
produced via pneumatic spraying or capillary condensation have garnered significant …

A long-standing but fundamental question in lightning studies concerns how lightning is
initiated inside storms, given the absence of physical conductors. The issue has revolved …

In 1965 it was discovered that cosmic ray air showers emit impulsive radio signals at
frequencies below 100 MHz. After a period of intense research in the 1960s and 1970s …

Lightning is an important atmospheric phenomenon and has wide-ranging influence on the
Earth system, but few long-term observational datasets of lightning occurrence and …

Electricity, the interaction between electrically charged objects, is widely known to be
fundamental to the functioning of living systems. However, this appreciation has largely …

Lightning is a dangerous yet poorly understood natural phenomenon. Lightning forms a
network of plasma channels propagating away from the initiation point with both positively …