What Lies Beneath a Gigantic Jet Lightning Event?
Taken by Frankie Lucena on January 15, 2019 @
Florida Institute of Technology
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Well, I took the radar images and charge structure data from a Gigantic Jet event that was captured on Sept. 28th, 2010 in Florida and superimposed it on a Gigantic Jet event that the Gemini Observatory/AURA cam captured in Hawaii, just to get an idea.
Levi Boggs of the Florida Institute of Technology helped me with the dimensions and in supplying me with the radar and charge structure images. Here is how he obtained the charge structure for this event.
"The charge structure producing gigantic jets is found from a combination of different radar variables, lightning data, and lightning simulations, but information about the charge structure is first obtained from re-analyzing available VHF lightning mapping data at different periods of the storms."
Here is a link to the paper that shows the charge structure data for the Florida event: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36309-z?fbclid=IwAR0EpjPHcqffdOcPe6ZuqRYF2eCx2fIDSOuaTGS4bWh9Anyu16BiGKvg1XI
Here is what Levi Boggs had to say about this video: "Hopefully one day we can get lightning data and video data like this for the same storm."
Hi-res link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e65e2rCgmhU&feature=youtu.be
Photographer's website:
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e65e2rCgmhU&feature=youtu.be
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