Downward emission of runaway electrons and bremsstrahlung photons in thunderstorm electric fields

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Torii, Tatsuo ^a   Nishijima, Takeshi ^b   Kawasaki, Zen Ichiro ^a   Sugita, Takeshi ^c  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Science System Laboratory Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHTNING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PHOTONS;

DOWNWARD EMISSIONS; PHOTON ENERGY SPECTRUM; RUNAWAY ELECTRONS;

THUNDERSTORMS;

ELECTRON; LIGHTNING; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 2442547430     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl019067     Document Type: Article

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