{"id":144098,"date":"2022-08-16T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/new-information-on-gigantic-jet-lightning-bursts-that-reach-toward-space"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:01:02","slug":"new-information-on-gigantic-jet-lightning-bursts-that-reach-toward-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/new-information-on-gigantic-jet-lightning-bursts-that-reach-toward-space","title":{"rendered":"New information on \u2018gigantic jet\u2019 lightning bursts that reach toward space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBsqIVXKi8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A detailed 3D study of a massive electrical discharge that rose 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm has provided new information about an elusive atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets. The Oklahoma discharge was the most powerful gigantic jet studied so far, carrying 100 times as much electrical charge as a typical thunderstorm lightning bolt.<\/p>\n<p>The gigantic jet moved an estimated 300 coulombs of electrical charge into the ionosphere\u2014the lower edge of space\u2014from the thunderstorm. Typical <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lightning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lightning<\/a> bolts carry less than five coulombs between the cloud and ground or within clouds. The upward discharge included relatively cool (approximately 400 degrees Fahrenheit) streamers of plasma, as well as structures called leaders that are very hot\u2014more than 8,000 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to map this gigantic jet in three dimensions with really <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high-quality+data\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high-quality data<\/a>,\u201d said Levi Boggs, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the paper\u2019s corresponding author. \u201cWe were able to see very high frequency (VHF) sources above the cloud top, which had not been seen before with this level of detail. Using satellite and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radar+data\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radar data<\/a>, we were able to learn where the very hot leader portion of the discharge was located above the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed 3D study of a massive electrical discharge that rose 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm has provided new information about an elusive atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets. The Oklahoma discharge was the most powerful gigantic jet studied so far, carrying 100 times as much electrical charge as a typical thunderstorm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}