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