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9/22 - NOSL investigations
BERNARD VONNEGUT - SUNY (Albany)
MARX BROOKS - NM TECH

1. lightning lecture 
+ [[delta]] V ~ 250KV between Earth & "[[infinity sign]]"
[[image]]

the charge separation between Earth & atmosphere is maintained by dust storms, water falls, volcanoes, etc...). Charge separation during TRW is primarily generated by TRW processes themselves.

Types of lightning:
intracloud (~10x more frequent than cl-gnd)
cloud to ground 
cloud to air outside

inside a cloud, charge separation appears to be [[circle with + sign in it]] near top, [[circle with - in it]] near bottom: [[see diagram]] 

PROCESS:

1. step - leader phase: "bolt" move out in ~50m "steps" from cloud.... it breaks down (arcs across) ~ 50m of air, establishes a conductive path along that 50m... that line then acquires potential ([[φ Phi symbol]]) of cloud, ->