Member Since 1992
Victor P. Pasko
Professor, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
Victor Pasko is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1996. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). From 2005 to 2008 Dr. Pasko served as Chair of AGU Atmospheric and Space Electricity Focus Group. Dr. Pasko served as an Associate Editor of Radio Science (2001-2022) and Journal of Geophysical Research (2005-2022).
Professional Experience
Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
Professor
2000 - Present
Education
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Benjamin Franklin Lecture
Received December 2023
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Union Fellow
Received December 2018
Citation
For developing new understanding of lightning driven electrical gas discharges in the upper regions of Earth's atmosphere.
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Publications
Remote Sensing of Source Currents of Narrow Bipolar Events Using Measured Electric Fields
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...
March 29, 2024
Preliminary Modeling of Magnetized Sprite Streamers on Jupit...
January 27, 2023
Implications of Electron Detachment in Associative Collision...
February 16, 2021
AGU Abstracts
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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Volunteer Experience
2001 - 2022
Associate Editor
Radio Science
2001 - 2022
Associate Editor
JGR Atmospheres Section
2019 - 2020
Member
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Fellows Committee
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