Author Affiliations
1Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME)/International Laboratory on Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD)/Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China2State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China3Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou 510641, Guangdong, China4Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Original luminous images of the discharge process
Fig. 2. Two-dimensional time-resolved spectrograms of three return strokes at channel height of about 337 m and magnified spectrograms of NI [856.8 nm, 859.4 nm, 862.9 nm] multiplet. (a) R1;(b) magnified spectrogram of NI [856.8 nm, 859.4 nm, 862.9 nm] multiplet for R1; (c) R2; (d) magnified spectrogram of NI [856.8 nm, 859.4 nm, 862.9 nm] multiplet for R2; (e) R3; (f) magnified spectrogram of NI [856.8 nm, 859.4 nm, 862.9 nm] multiplet for R3
Fig. 3. Three-dimensional time evolution spectrograms of three return strokes at channel height of about 337 m. (a) R1; (b) R2; (c) R3
Fig. 4. Original spectra of three return strokes. (a) R1,-0.07 ms; (b) R1,0 ms; (c) R1,0.07 ms; (d) R2,38.75 ms; (e) R2,38.82 ms;(f) R2,38.89 ms; (g) R3,86.04 ms; (h) R3,86.11 ms; (i) R3,86.18 ms
Fig. 5. Variations of the spectrogram along the channel height for each return stroke. (a) R1,0 ms; (b) R1,0.07 ms; (c) R1,0.14 ms; (d) R2,38.82 ms; (e) R2,38.89 ms; (f) R3,86.11 ms; (g) R3,86.18 ms
Fig. 6. Variations of total intensity of the spectra, total intensity of ionized lines, and total intensity of neutral lines along the channel height for each return stroke. (a) R1,0 ms; (b) R1,0.07 ms; (c) R1,0.14 ms; (d) R2,38.82 ms; (e) R2,38.89 ms;(f) R3,86.11 ms; (g) R3,86.18 ms
Fig. 7. Intensity ratios of measured spectral lines and the ratios of theoretical gA values within the NI [856.8 nm, 859.4 nm, 862.9 nm] multiplet. (a) NI 856.8/859.4 nm; (b) 856.8/862.9 nm; (c) 859.4 /862.9 nm
Wavelength /nm | Transition probability with statistical weight gA /(×108 s-1) | Excitation energy E /eV | Upper level Conf.,Term,J |
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856.8 | 0.194 | 12.126 | 2s22p2(3P)3p 2P°3/2 | 859.4 | 0.418 | 12.122 | 2s22p2(3P)3p 2P°1/2 | 862.9 | 1.07 | 12.126 | 2s22p2(3P)3p 2P°3/2 |
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Table 1. Transition parameters of NI [856.8 nm, 859.4 nm, 862.9 nm] multiplet