Laser-guided lightning

A Houard, P Walch, T Produit, V Moreno, B Mahieu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lightning discharges between charged clouds and the Earth's surface are responsible for
considerable damages and casualties. It is therefore important to develop better protection …

Direct observations of X-rays produced by upward positive lightning

T Oregel-Chaumont, A Šunjerga, P Hettiarachchi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
X-rays have been observed in natural downward cloud-to-ground lightning for over 20 years
and in rocket-triggered lightning for slightly less. In both cases, this energetic radiation has …

Underlying Physical Mechanisms in Upward Positive Flashes

T Oregel-Chaumont, A Šunjerga, J Kasparian… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
This study presents the first observation of a mixed mode of charge transfer during an
upward positive flash, which was initiated from the S\" antis Tower in Switzerland. High …

Sensitivity Analysis on the Reconstruction of the Attenuation Function for Short Time-Windows Measurements

R Aramini, M Brignone, D Mestriner… - ICLP 2024; 37th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By relying on suitable propagation models, lightning electromagnetic fields can be
computed from the knowledge of the channel-base current (CBC) and of the attenuation …

[PDF][PDF] Mixed Mode of Charge Transfer During an Upward Positive Flash at Säntis Tower

T Oregel-Chaumont, A Šunjerga… - [Procceding …, 2024 - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
The term “mixed mode of charge transfer to ground for initial continuous current (ICC)
pulses” in the context of upward lightning flashes was first proposed by Zhou et al. 2011 [1] …