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Kinetic Instability of Charged-Particle Flow in a Thunderstorm Cloud

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We consider the linear stage of an instability of charged-particle flow in a thunderstorm cloud. A dispersion relation characterizing the temporal evolution of a spectral component of the quasistatic electric field is obtained with account of the size spread of large particles. This dispersion relation is studied for the cases of a monodispersed particle ensemble and a model distribution function. The dependences of the instability parameters on the large-particle size spread and the air-flow conductivity are obtained.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    V. S. Grach, A. G. Demekhov & V. Yu. Trakhtengerts

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 488–501, June 2005.

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Grach, V.S., Demekhov, A.G. & Trakhtengerts, V.Y. Kinetic Instability of Charged-Particle Flow in a Thunderstorm Cloud. Radiophys Quantum Electron 48, 435–446 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-005-0087-5

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