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Kolmašová, I.; Scholten, O.; Santolík, O.; Hare, B. M.; Zacharov, P.; Lán, R.; Liu, N.; Dwyer, J. R.
Geophysical research letters, 28 May 2023, Letnik: 50, Številka: 10Journal Article
We report the first observations of negative intracloud (IC) dart‐stepped leaders accompanied by regular trains of microsecond‐scale pulses, simultaneously detected by shielded broadband magnetic loop antennas and the radio telescope Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). Four investigated pulse trains occurred during complicated IC flashes on 18 June 2021, when heavy thunderstorms hit the Netherlands. The pulses within the trains are unipolar, a few microseconds wide, and with an average inter‐pulse interval of 5–7 μs. The broadband pulses perfectly match energetic, regularly distributed, and relatively isolated bursts of very high frequency sources localized by LOFAR. All trains were generated by negative dart‐stepped leaders propagating at a lower speed than usual dart leaders. They followed channels of previous leaders occurring within the same flash several tens of milliseconds before the reported observations. The physical mechanism remains unclear as to why we observe dart‐stepped leaders, which show mostly regular stepping, emitting energetic microsecond‐scale pulses. Plain Language Summary Lightning phenomena inside thunderclouds can be explored using their electromagnetic radiation. To study these processes at small temporal and spatial scales, we combine broadband magnetic loop antennas with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope. Measurements of broadband antennas acquired during a severe Dutch thunderstorm showed pulse sequences composed of tens microsecond‐scale unipolar pulses, which were surprisingly regularly distributed. Such regular pulse trains have been rarely reported from previous observations. When we thoroughly lined up the timestamps of both simultaneously measuring observational systems, we found that the regular broadband pulses perfectly match with localized isolated bursts of energetic very high frequency radiation detected by LOFAR. The 3D mapping of the radio sources of these bursts allowed us to place the investigated events into the context of the parent intracloud (IC) lightning flash. The results revealed negative IC dart leaders, which propagated along the preconditioned channels originally formed by previous positive or negative IC leaders. Some of these dart leaders then exhibited unusual stepping manifested by the observed regular pulses. We assume that a favorable combination of the conductivity of preexisting lightning channels and the strength of the ambient electric field inside thunderclouds might be needed to trigger this unusual stepping. Key Points We observed intracloud negative dart‐stepped leaders producing regular trains of broadband electromagnetic microsecond‐scale pulses Very High Frequency sources follow channels of previous leaders occurring within the same flash tens of milliseconds before the reported observations Conductivity of decaying channels and strength of the ambient electric field might act together to trigger this unusual stepping process
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