1. Lightning discharges may occur between areas of cloud without contacting the ground.2. Curiously, perchlorate can be produced by lightning discharges in the presence of chloride. 3. Continental deep-convective thunderstorms produce most of the lightning discharges on Earth. 4. Somehow, he explained, lightning discharges in the lower atmosphere are having effects in the upper atmosphere. 5. Other phenomena studied are upper-atmospheric lightning discharges , such as red sprites, sprite halos or blue jets. 6. This is the'return stroke'and it is the most luminous and noticeable part of the lightning discharge . 7. "' Atmospheric noise "'is radio noise caused by natural atmospheric processes, primarily lightning discharges in thunderstorms. 8. DBC is preferable in some areas since it is more resistant to being the focus of lightning discharges . 9. However, sprites are cold tropospheric lightning, so they are more akin to fluorescent tube discharges than to lightning discharges . 10. This range does not include looking at the midday sun ( 10 9 cd / m 2 ) or lightning discharge .
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