According to a new study, the energy must originate within the giants, get transported upward and become amplified by turbulent storms. (scientificamerican.com)
In one sentence: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers explained the complex fluxes in turbulent storm clouds using statistical distributions of the vertical velocity and various kinds of precipitating particles within the clouds. (pnnl.gov)
PNNL's new modeling technique describes water's up and down journey inside turbulent storm clouds (pnnl.gov)