Sentences with phrase «generate lightning flashes»

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Cloud - to - ground lightning (CG) flash data from the National Lightning Detection Network matched against satellite - mapped aerosol plumes imply that thunderstorms forming in smoke - contaminated air masses generated large amounts of lightning with positive polaritylightning (CG) flash data from the National Lightning Detection Network matched against satellite - mapped aerosol plumes imply that thunderstorms forming in smoke - contaminated air masses generated large amounts of lightning with positive polarityLightning Detection Network matched against satellite - mapped aerosol plumes imply that thunderstorms forming in smoke - contaminated air masses generated large amounts of lightning with positive polaritylightning with positive polarity (+ CGs).

The PTMA is in a class of electrically active polymers that could bring inexpensive transparent solar cells; antistatic and antiglare coatings for cellphone displays; antistatic coverings for aircraft to protect against lightning strikes; flexible flash drives; and thermoelectric devices, which generate electricity from heat.

Now, analyses of data gathered in 2006 by two satellites — one carrying a down - gazing camera and the other a gamma ray detector — as well as a ground - based lightning detector in North Carolina, reveal that these flashes start out, as does most lightning, as a small channel of charged particles within the storm cloud (golden zigzag line, left; lightning - generated radio waves are depicted as concentric rings).