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Victor P. Pasko
Professor, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
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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...
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...
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...
Helmholtz Equations Based Approach to Analysis of Inception Conditions of Positive Corona Discharges in Air
PHYSICS OF STREAMERS, LEADERS, AND THE LIGHTNING DISCHARGE: HIGH-RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING III POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 14 december 2022
Victor P. Pasko, Reza Janalizadeh, Jaroslav Jansky
Photoionization of molecular oxygen due to extreme ultraviolet emissions in the wavelength range 98-102.5 nm [Zheleznyak et al., High Temperature, 20,...
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A Theory for Efficient Calculation of Electron Transport and Reaction Rate Coefficients in Weakly Ionized Magnetized Plasma
THUNDERSTORM EFFECTS IN THE NEAR-EARTH SPACE ENVIRONMENT AND TOPICS IN ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 12 december 2022
Reza Janalizadeh, Zaid Pervez, Victor P. Pasko
In the absence of a magnetic field, the electron energy distribution function (EEDF) obtained in the local field approximation of the Lorentzian gas m...
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Modeling of streamers in Jupiter’s atmosphere using data from the Juno spacecraft
THUNDERSTORM EFFECTS IN THE NEAR-EARTH SPACE ENVIRONMENT II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 14 december 2021
Reza Janalizadeh, Victor P. Pasko
The first observation of possible transient luminous events (TLEs) on Jupiter was recently reported by Giles et al. [JGR, 125, e2020JE006659, 2020]. T...
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