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
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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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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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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