New observation and analysis of window damage as evidence for energy and power content of ball lightning

IF 1.8 4区地球科学 Q3 GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI:10.1016/j.jastp.2024.106300

Karl D. Stephan

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Abstract

Ball lightning sometimes passes through closed glass windows, usually without damage but occasionally causing characteristic damage in the shape of a circular hole. We review some of these relatively rare cases, present a probable new case, and elucidate a process that accounts for the type of damage typically seen. The process requires volume rather than surface heating of the glass, and this requirement is not met by most current theories of ball lightning, except for one that involves new physics.

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作为球状闪电能量和功率含量证据的窗户损坏新观测和分析结果

球状闪电有时会穿过封闭的玻璃窗，通常不会造成损坏，但偶尔也会造成圆孔状的特征性损坏。我们回顾了其中一些相对罕见的案例，提出了一个可能的新案例，并阐明了造成这种典型损坏的过程。这一过程需要玻璃的体积加热而不是表面加热，而目前大多数球状闪电理论都无法满足这一要求，只有一种涉及新物理学的理论除外。

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来源期刊

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 地学-地球化学与地球物理

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

5.30%

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审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) is an international journal concerned with the inter-disciplinary science of the Earth''s atmospheric and space environment, especially the highly varied and highly variable physical phenomena that occur in this natural laboratory and the processes that couple them. The journal covers the physical processes operating in the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, the Sun, interplanetary medium, and heliosphere. Phenomena occurring in other "spheres", solar influences on climate, and supporting laboratory measurements are also considered. The journal deals especially with the coupling between the different regions. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other energetic events on the Sun create interesting and important perturbations in the near-Earth space environment. The physics of such "space weather" is central to the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics and the journal welcomes papers that lead in the direction of a predictive understanding of the coupled system. Regarding the upper atmosphere, the subjects of aeronomy, geomagnetism and geoelectricity, auroral phenomena, radio wave propagation, and plasma instabilities, are examples within the broad field of solar-terrestrial physics which emphasise the energy exchange between the solar wind, the magnetospheric and ionospheric plasmas, and the neutral gas. In the lower atmosphere, topics covered range from mesoscale to global scale dynamics, to atmospheric electricity, lightning and its effects, and to anthropogenic changes.