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Contract number
14.B25.31.0023
Time span of the project
2013-2017

As of 30.01.2020

27
Number of staff members
56
scientific publications
7
Objects of intellectual property
General information

Name of the project: Lightnings and storms: physical effects

Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development Priority Level: д


Goals and objectives

Research directions: Earth studies, ecology and rational utilization of natural resources

Project objective: Research of unsolved problems of storm and lightning physics


The practical value of the study

  • For the first time we have found a new type of in-cloud discharges inside an artificial charged aerosol cloud.
  • We have demonstrated experimental generation of X-ray radiation from a long spark (laboratory lightning).
  • New principles of operative monitoring and forecasting of lightning activity have been developed.
  • Our researchers have conducted laboratory modeling of high altitude discharges: sprites and jets.
  • We have developed parametrization of ionospheric potential for quantitative models of atmosphere dynamics.

Implemented results of research:

  • We have implemented a lightning direction finding system.
  • We have implemented a lightning activity forecasting system.

Education and career development:

  • 2 doctoral dissertations, 6 candidate dissertations, 5 masters dissertations have been defended.
  • 5 students and 7 postgraduates have participated in the project.
  • 10 young scientists have completed internships at the Laboratory.
  • 2 new courses have been implemented: «Lightning physics» and «Basics of Earth physics and gravimetry».

Organizational and structural changes:

On the basis of the «Bezvodovoe» test range an observatory has been created with a unique complex of measuring equipment for full-scale research of atmospheric electricity and lightning discharges.

Other results:

  • 2 international conferences and 3 schools for young scientists have been organized.
  • As a pert of public activity the Laboratory has provided consulting on impact of lightnings in objects 2 times upon requests from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and 3 times upon requests from insurance companies.

Collaborations:

  • Tel Aviv University (Israel), Yerevan Physics Institute (Armenia), Institute of Computational Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia): joint research
  • University of Reading (UK): joint research within programs of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the London Royal Society (UK).

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Kostinskiy A.Y., Syssoev V.S., Bogatov N.A., Mareev E.A., Andreev M.G., Bulatov M.U., Makalsky L.M., Sukharevsky D.I., Rakov V.A
Observations of the Connection of Positive and Negative Leaders in Meter-Scale Electric Discharges Generated by Clouds of Negatively Charged Water Droplets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121: 9756–9766 (2016).
Kostinskiy A.Y., Syssoev V.S., Bogatov N.A., Mareev E.A., Andreev M.G., Makalsky L.M., Sukharevsky D. I., Rakov V. A.
Observation of a New Class of Electric Discharges within Artificial Clouds of Charged Water Droplets and Its Implication for Lightning Initiation within Thunderclouds. Geophysical Research Letters 42(19): 8165–8171 (2015).
Kostinskiy A.Yu, Syssoev V.S., Bogatov N.A., Mareev E.A., Andreev M.G., Makalsky L.M., Sukharevsky D.I., Rakov V.A.
Infrared Images of Bidirectional Leaders Produced by the Cloud of Charged Water Droplets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120(20): 10728–10735 (2015).
Slyunyaev N. N., Mareev E.A., Zhidkov A.A.
On the Variation of the Ionospheric Potential due to Large-Scale Radioactivity Enhancement and Solar Activity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 120 (2015).
Mareev E.A., Dementyeva S.O.
The Role of Turbulence in Thunderstorm, Snowstorm, and Dust Storm Electrification. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122: 6976–6988 (2017).
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