Explanation of the data on densities of nitrogen oxides in the immediate neighborhood of ball lightning

IF 1.8 4区地球科学 Q3 GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Pub Date : 2025-01-10 DOI:10.1016/j.jastp.2025.106428

Mikhail L. Shmatov

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Abstract

The data on densities of nitrogen oxides in air sample, taken by M.T. Dmitriev in the immediate neighborhood of ball lightning, are explained for the first time within framework of ball lightning model based on the assumption that ball lightning has a core consisting of clouds of electrons and ions which oscillate with respect to each other and undergo the random motion disturbing the oscillatory one. According to the model, the nitrogen oxides in the air sample were produced mainly due to absorption of photons with energies of 100 eV to 10 keV, emitted by the ball lightning. The model also explains 75–80 s long lifetime of ball lightning observed by M.T. Dmitriev and yields that the ionizing radiation dose received by him was compatible with his survival.

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

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4.10

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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.