Member Since 2017
Yunjiao Pu
Research Scientist, Duke University
Member, Atmospheric and Space Electricity Fellows Committee
Professional Experience
Duke University
Research Scientist
2024 - Present
Education
Duke University
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR: Atmospheres
Received December 2023
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received December 2021
Presentation Title: Quantification of Electric Fields in Lightning Using VHF-UHF Radio Spectra
Event: 2021 Fall Meeting
Awarding Section: Atmospheric and Space Electricity
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Student Travel Grant
Received December 2017
Publications
Continuous Initial Breakdown Development of In‐Cloud Lightning Flashes
Using a 30–250 MHz VHF interferometer, we observed a previously unreported mode of initial lightning development inside thunderclouds. T...
October 24, 2024
Evidence of a New Population of Weak Terrestrial Gamma‐Ray F...
September 07, 2024
Imaging Step Formation in In‐Cloud Lightning Initial Develop...
January 03, 2024
Determining a Lower Limit of Luminosity for the First Satell...
September 14, 2023
AGU Abstracts
The Novel View of Gamma-Ray Active Thunderclouds from the ALOFT Flight Campaign
ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE ELECTRICITY QUICK STRIKES ELIGHTNING
atmospheric and space electricity | 11 december 2024
Martino Marisaldi, Nikolai Ostgaard, Timothy J. La...
The ALOFT* 2023 flight campaign is revolutionizing the field of atmospheric electricity, providing observations of gamma-ray emissions from tropical t...
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Small Discharges at Thunderstorm Tops Imaged with VHF Interferometry
PHYSICS OF STREAMERS, LEADERS, AND THE LIGHTNING DISCHARGE II ORAL
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Yunjiao Pu, Steven A. Cummer, Olaf Scholten, Ningy...
During the 2023 Airborne Lightning Observatory for FEGS and TGFs (ALOFT) campaign, a short-baseline VHF (0-250 MHz) interferometer was deployed in sou...
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Temporal Characteristics of Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes (FGFs) as Seen by iSTORM During the 2023 ALOFT Campaign
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Daniel Shy, J Eric Grove, Bernard F. Phlips, M. Ke...
Prior to 2023, two different gamma-ray transients were known to originate from thunderstorms: Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) and gamma-ray glows...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Member
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Fellows Committee
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