During these storms, high-energy electrons can be injected into the inner belt, where they remain trapped until something, like a lightning-generated whistler wave, knocks them loose. “Typically, the ...

A new study from my research team has found that electromagnetic waves generated by lightning can trigger these electron showers. At the start of the space race in the 1950s, professor James Van ...

Lightning, the large electromagnetic discharges that light up the sky during thunderstorms, can actually generate electromagnetic waves known as lightning-generated whistlers. These waves can then ...

where they are the result of interactions with phenomena called whistler mode chorus radio waves. However, they can also be observed in the inner belt, where they are generated by whistlers produced ...

Lightning is known to generate electromagnetic waves known as whistler waves, which occur in the low frequency radio range of the spectrum. Previous research suggests that whistler waves rippling ...

Two scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks have discovered a new type of electromagnetic wave, called a "whistler," that transports energy from lightning to Earth's magnetosphere. This ...

scientists reported discovering a new type of whistler wave produced by a previously unknown wave generation mechanism. They found lightning energy injected into the ionosphere at low latitudes ...

The impact of lightning-generated whistler waves on radiation belt physics and their use in remote sensing of magnetospheric plasma has been researched since the 1950s. Reference: “Specularly ...

This type of wave contrasts with the magnetospherically reflected whistler, which is generated when lightning energy enters the ionosphere at higher latitudes and undergoes one or more reflections ...

The researchers describe their discovery as a type of whistler — a low-frequency electromagnetic wave generated by lightning — which they call a “specular reflection whistler.” Lightning energy that ...

The impact of lightning-generated whistler waves on radiation belt physics and their use in remote sensing of magnetospheric plasma have been researched since the 1950s. Sonwalkar and Reddy are with ...