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Jan.  1989

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Conditions for Producing and Maintaining Plasma Ball Lightning in the Atmosphere


doi: 10.1007/BF02656918

  • Based on the results of plasma experiments and research work done by Dawson and Jones, Trubnikov, Endean, and other researchers, three requirements for producing and maintaining plasma ball lightning have been found: 1) rotation of plasma, 2) the density of charged particles nc > 3.15 × 10-10ω2,3) a stable confinement of plasma. In this model, the energy density of ball lightning ranged from 10-2 J / cm3 to 104 J/ cm3, the formation, shape, stability, energy, maintaining processes and other properties of ball lightning were explained reasonably.
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Manuscript received: 10 January 1989
Manuscript revised: 10 January 1989
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Conditions for Producing and Maintaining Plasma Ball Lightning in the Atmosphere

  • 1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing

Abstract: Based on the results of plasma experiments and research work done by Dawson and Jones, Trubnikov, Endean, and other researchers, three requirements for producing and maintaining plasma ball lightning have been found: 1) rotation of plasma, 2) the density of charged particles nc > 3.15 × 10-10ω2,3) a stable confinement of plasma. In this model, the energy density of ball lightning ranged from 10-2 J / cm3 to 104 J/ cm3, the formation, shape, stability, energy, maintaining processes and other properties of ball lightning were explained reasonably.

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