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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9119-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9119-2024
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22 Aug 2024
Research article |  | 22 Aug 2024

Solar cycle signatures in lightning activity

Jaroslav Chum, Ronald Langer, Ivana Kolmašová, Ondřej Lhotka, Jan Rusz, and Igor Strhárský

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Lightning and extreme weather can endanger people and technology. Despite advances in science, not all the factors that lead to the formation of thunderclouds, to their charging and to lightning ignition are known in detail. This paper shows that lightning frequency may, to some extent, be modulated by solar activity and solar wind. Namely, in the region of the South Atlantic Anomaly of the Earth's magnetic field, it correlates with the polarity and intensity of the solar wind.
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