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Victor P. Pasko
Professor, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
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Self-consistent modeling of relativistic feedback in the context of intracloud lightning leader propagation
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Sebastien J. Celestin, Victor P. Pasko, Pierre Gou...
Terrestrial Gamma ray Flashes (TGFs) are bright bursts of high-energy photons produced in thunderstorms and mostly observed from space. They are stron...
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Lightning Precursor Discharges and Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Victor P. Pasko, Sebastien J. Celestin, Anne Bourd...
Spectacular naturally occurring bursts of X-rays with tens of mega electron-volt energies are observed in association with lightning activity in the E...
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Compact Intracloud Discharges and the Sources Generating Their Low and High Frequency Signatures
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 09 december 2024
Zaid Pervez, Reza Janalizadeh, Victor P. Pasko
A class of lightning precursor discharges known as compact intracloud discharges (CIDs) are primarily identified by their characteristic wideband (VLF...
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Remote Sensing of Source Currents of Narrow Bipolar Events Using Measured Electric Fields
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
29 march 2024
Zaid Pervez, Reza Janalizadeh, Victor P. Pasko

In this work the electric field of narrow bipolar events (NBEs) measured at a remote location is used to extract the current waveform of the source...

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Lightning Related Transient Luminous Events in the Middle Atmosphere
THE 2023 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LECTURE
atmospheric and space electricity | 13 december 2023
Victor P. Pasko
Atmospheric electricity processes at low altitudes in the Earth's atmosphere produce lightning flashes that lead to plasma phenomena with measurable e...
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Feedback Effects in Positive Corona and Relativistic Runaway Discharges
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 12 december 2023
Victor P. Pasko, Sebastien J. Celestin, Anne Bourd...
We discuss characteristic scales and direct physical analogy between the photoionization feedback in conventional positive corona discharges in air an...
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Conditions for Inception of Relativistic Runaway Discharges in Air
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
30 march 2023
Victor P. Pasko, Sebastien J. Celestin, Anne Bourd...

Terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes are linked to growth of long bidirectional lightning leader system consisting of positive and stepping negative...

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Preliminary Modeling of Magnetized Sprite Streamers on Jupiter Following Juno's Observations of Possible Transient Luminous Events
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
27 january 2023
Reza Janalizadeh, Victor P. Pasko

The first observation of possible transient luminous events (TLEs) on Jupiter was reported recently. Whereas initiation of elves on Jupiter has bee...

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