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Caitano L. da Silva
Associate Professor of Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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Ground-based observations of sprites with neuromorphic sensors
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 11 december 2024
Caitano L. da Silva, Brandon Smith, Matthew G. McH...
Neuromorphic sensors have inherently-fast speeds and low data rates, which potentially make them ideal for the observation of transient sources, such ...
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Computational Study on the Inception Mechanism of Dart Leaders
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
John Pantuso, Caitano L. da Silva, Daniel Jensen, ...
Dart leaders are a category of leader discharges which propagate at high speeds traversing decaying channels previously established by lightning activ...
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Patterns of lightning incidence in New Mexico
AGU 2024
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Emma Stover, Caitano L. da Silva
Lightning plays an important role in the atmospheric system being the main non-anthropogenic source of nitrogen oxides in the troposphere, and by bein...
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Variety and classification of TGFs and related events
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
David M. Smith, Heather Mentzer, Ronaldo Rodriguez...
Observations of high-energy radiation from lightning began with upward terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) seen from space by the Burst and Transient...
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The Nature of Standing Plasma Waves Which Follow Fast Breakdown
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 09 december 2024
Seda Senay, David Bennecke, Caitano L. da Silva, P...
Fast breakdown is the term coined to describe large-scale streamer systems taking place inside thunderstorms, developing to 100s of meters in extent. ...
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Measuring lightning temperature with atomic oxygen photometry
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 09 december 2024
Jacob Wemhoner, Caitano L. da Silva, Adonis Leal, ...
Measuring the temperature of lightning return strokes is a fundamental part of understanding the evolution of the plasma channel to quantify the energ...
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Radio and Optical Observations of Sprites at High Time Resolution
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 09 december 2024
John Ortberg, Eric C. Bruning, Luis Contreras Vida...
We expand on the work of Contreras-Vidal et al 2021 to compare the optical and radio emissions of the sprites and their parent strikes at high time re...
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Plasma temperature as a cornerstone of lightning physics
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 09 december 2024
Caitano L. da Silva
Lightning is a complex type of non-equilibrium atmospheric plasma, which exhibits many flavors of collective behavior, including several types of ioni...
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