Lightning strikes in the Arctic tripled from 2010 to 2020, a finding 91自拍 91自拍ers attribute to rising temperatures due to human-caused climate change. The results, 91自拍ers say, suggest Arctic residents in northern Russia, Canada, Europe and Alaska need to prepare for the danger of more frequent lightning strikes.
A study of superbolts, which release a thousand times more electrical energy in the low-frequency range than regular lightning bolts, finds they occur at very different times and places than regular lightning. Superbolts tend to strike over particular parts of the oceans, while regular lightning strikes over land.
Research shows that real-time lightning observations could significantly improve forecasts of large storm events.
Researchers from the 91自拍 are awaiting the launch an over 50-foot-long rocket from a launch site in Norway into the upper reaches of the atmosphere to observe and measure a puzzling phenomenon.