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Applying modern meteorological tools to the study of ball lightning (Kugelblitz)
Richard Sonnenfeld, Karl Stephan, Alexander Keul et al., 2020. Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr).
Matches 31 reports from a defunct US website with NLDN lightning and radar data: for three of nine well-timed and located reports there were plausible nearby strikes, but for the best-located case the nearest strike was 2.3 km away; suggests ball lightning is tied to electric fields near storms more than to the channel. Cites Rakov and Uman for about 5,000 published reports.
What it's used for here
The US network comparison and the field-versus-channel question.
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Ball lightning
MYSThe mystery article
Cite it
Sonnenfeld, R., Stephan, K., Keul, A., Edelman, E., & Jimenez, D. (2020). Applying modern meteorological tools to the study of ball lightning (Kugelblitz). Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr). https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505247.1
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title = {Applying modern meteorological tools to the study of ball lightning (Kugelblitz)},
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year = {2020},
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Sonnenfeld, Richard et al.. “Applying modern meteorological tools to the study of ball lightning (Kugelblitz).” Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr) (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505247.1.