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A lightning storm over England is imaged. Credit: Catalin Fatu.

Lightning radiation astronomy is a lecture from the radiation astronomy department on the origin, constitution and occurrence of lightning.

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Quiz

  

1 Complete the text:

A composite

spectrum is approximately a

law over at least the ≈ 5 decade wavenumber range 10-13 m-1 < wavenumber < 10-8 m-1 and that may extend to

wavenumbers.

2 True or False, Some lightning that occurs is actually positive charges moving downward to the Earth's surface.

TRUE
FALSE

3 Which of the following are associated with electromagnetics?

angular momentum transfer
solar wind
protons
electrons
the baryon neutrino
charge neutralization

4 True or False, Like all elementary particles, the electron has a corresponding antiparticle of opposite spin but equal mass and charge (-1).

TRUE
FALSE

5 Complete the text:

Blue jets differ from sprites in that they project from the

of the cumulonimbus above a

, typically in a narrow cone, to the lowest levels of the

.

6 True or False, Cloud-to-cloud lightning occurs between charged portions of clouds with opposite sign.

TRUE
FALSE

7 Yes or No, Blue jets differ from sprites in that they project from the top of the cumulonimbus above a thunderstorm to the lowest levels of the ionosphere.

No
Yes

8 True or False, Some lightning strikes may be originated by cosmic rays.

TRUE
FALSE

9 Yes or No, Red sprites tend to be associated with significant lightning strikes.

No
Yes

10 Which of the following is associated with an atmosphere?

clouds
jet streams
rain
wind
faults
lightning

11 True or False, Antilightning is lightning spinning backward in time.

TRUE
FALSE

Hypotheses

  1. Lightning is an effort by the Earth to balance charges impinging on the ionosphere from the solar wind.

See also

{{Radiation astronomy resources}}

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