3D study of “Gigantic Jet” provides new insights into upward lightning bursts Peer-Reviewed Publication GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY A detailed 3D study of a massive electrical discharge that rose 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm has provided new information about an elusive atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets. The Oklahoma discharge was the most powerful gigantic jet studied so far, carrying 100 times as much electrical charge as a typical thunderstorm lightning bolt. The gigantic jet moved an estimated 300 coulombs of electrical charge into the ionosphere – the lower edge of space – from the thunderstorm. Typical lightning bolts carry less than five coulombs between the cloud and ground, or within clouds. The upward discharge included relatively cool (approximately 400 degrees Fahrenheit) streamers of plasma, as well as structures called leaders that are very hot – more than 8,000 degrees Fahrenheit. “We were able to map this gigantic jet in three dimensions with really high-quality data,” said Levi Boggs, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the paper’s corresponding author. “We were able to see very high frequency (VHF) sources above the cloud top, which had not been seen before with this level of detail. Using satellite and radar data, we were able to learn where the very hot leader portion of the discharge was located above the cloud.” Boggs worked with a multi-organization research team, including the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Texas Tech University, the University of New Hampshire, Politecnica de Catalunya, Duke University, the University of Oklahoma, NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The research was reported Aug. 3 in Science Advances, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open-access scientific journal. Steve Cummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke, uses the electromagnetic waves that lightning emits to study the powerful phenomenon. He operates a research site where sensors resembling conventional antennas are arrayed in an otherwise empty field, waiting to pick up signals from locally occurring storms. “The VHF and optical signals definitively confirmed what researchers had suspected but not yet proven: that the VHF radio from lightning is emitted by small structures called streamers that are at the very tip of the developing lightning, while the strongest electric current flows significantly behind this tip in an electrically conducting channel called a leader,” Cummer said. Doug Mach, a co-author of the paper at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), said the study was unique in determining that the 3D locations for the lightning’s optical emissions were well above the cloud tops. “The fact that the gigantic jet was detected by several systems, including the Lightning Mapping Array and two geostationary optical lightning instruments, was a unique event and gives us a lot more information on gigantic jets,” Mach said. “More importantly, this is probably the first time that a gigantic jet has been three-dimensionally mapped above the clouds with the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument set.” Gigantic jets have been observed and studied over the past two decades, but because there’s no specific observing system to look for them, detections have been rare. Boggs learned about the Oklahoma event from a colleague, who told him about a gigantic jet that had been photographed by a citizen-scientist who had a low-light camera in operation on May 14, 2018. Fortuitously, the event took place in a location with a nearby VHF lightning mapping system, within range of two Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) locations and accessible to instruments on satellites from NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) network. Boggs determined that the data from those systems was available and worked with colleagues to bring it together for analysis. “The detailed data showed that those cold streamers start their propagation right above the cloud top,” Boggs explained. “They propagate all the way to the lower ionosphere to an altitude of 50-60 miles, making a direct electrical connection between the cloud top and the lower ionosphere, which is the lower edge of space.” That connection transfers thousands of amperes of current in about a second. The upward discharge transferred negative charge from the cloud to the ionosphere, typical of gigantic jets. The data showed that as the discharge ascended from the cloud top, VHF radio sources were detected at altitudes of 22 to 45 kilometers (13 to 28 miles), while optical emissions from the lightning leaders remained near the cloud top at an altitude of 15 to 20 kilometers (9 to 12 miles). The simultaneous 3D radio and optical data indicate that VHF lightning networks detect emissions from streamer corona rather than the leader channel, which has broad implications to lightning physics beyond that of gigantic jets. Why do the gigantic jets shoot charge into space? Researchers speculate that something may be blocking the flow of charge downward – or toward other clouds. Records of the Oklahoma event show little lightning activity from the storm before it fired the record gigantic jet. “For whatever reason, there is usually a suppression of cloud-to-ground discharges,” Boggs said. “There is a buildup of negative charge, and then we think that the conditions in the storm top weaken the uppermost charge layer, which is usually positive. In the absence of the lightning discharges we normally see, the gigantic jet may relieve the buildup of excess negative charge in the cloud.” For now, there are a lot of unanswered questions about gigantic jets, which are part of a class of mysterious transient luminous events. That’s because observations of them are rare and happen by chance – from pilots or aircraft passengers happening to see them or ground observers operating night-scanning cameras. Estimates for the frequency of gigantic jets range from 1,000 per year up to 50,000 per year. They’ve been reported more often in tropical regions of the globe. However, the Oklahoma gigantic jet – which was twice as powerful as the next strongest one – wasn’t part of a tropical storm system. Beyond their novelty, gigantic jets could have an impact on the operation of satellites in low-earth orbit, Boggs said. As more of those space vehicles are launched, signal degradation and performance issues could become more significant. The gigantic jets could also affect technologies such as over-the-horizon radars that bounce radio waves off the ionosphere. Boggs is affiliated with the Severe Storms Research Center, which was established at GTRI to develop improved technologies for warning of severe storms, such as tornadoes, that are common in Georgia. The work on gigantic jets and other atmospheric phenomena is part of that effort.

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This is by far one of my most memorable teaching moments in my flying career. Me and my father departed from centennial airport (APA) for Kansas city downtown (MKC) in the SF50 vision jet. My father needed to do a plane swap for a new demonstration aircraft so he allowed me to come along. The flight out there was rather uneventful, it was a beautiful July evening and not a thunderstorm in sight.

Arriving into MKC

We arrived out in Kansas city and went and grabbed dinner in the downtown area with my dads coworker, thank god we did because the next few hours were about to become chaotic.

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Within the next hour and a half there were two MASSIVE thunderstorms that popped up, one being south of our route of flight and one being north. These thunderstorms were rapidly growing, and slowly closing in on each other which would close our gap along our route of flight. With this being a normal thing in the summer we didn't think much about it so we quickly departed MKC for APA and had a nice gap between the two thunderstorms.

In a normal climb out we were just north of the southern thunderstorm by about 20-30 miles. The lightning storm was absolutely beautiful as you watch it all from a distance. Climbing through 14,000 feet we had no weather on our NEXRAD weather, keep in mind here that the NEXRAD is updated every 5-10 minutes. With this rapidly growing thunderstorm, what we were seeing on the radar wasn't what was actually happening outside.

In that climb through 14,000 feet the lightning started to grow dark which was really unusual. We look up and see this massive black tower in front of us and BAM we smack this thunderstorm (which was not on the radar). We immediately hit a crazy updraft so our climb rate went from 2,000 FPM to 8,000 FPM! We were just covered in ice in a matter of seconds. We quickly made a turn back around to the right because we knew the thunderstorm was off our left so we would now fly away from it and allow us to get out of this rapidly growing "cell". Without air traffic controls approval, which in this situation was ok, we made the turn back around and got the aircraft stable enough and outside of the thunderstorm. With that we were now at 19,000 feet and all of this happened in a span of maybe 2 minutes max.

We were now mentally shaken up over what just happened. With that we got a re route over to Omaha Nebraska where we could land and re asses how we wanted to get home. We arrived in Omaha probably around 11pm and got more jet fuel and said that we were just go the really long way. Our new route of flight has us going north of the northern thunderstorm all the way up to the southern part of North Dakota then we would traverse west and pop down over Wyoming.

We did make it back home that night at around 2am in the morning. We were both exhausted but man this was such a good learning moment.

Looking back at this experience there were a few things we could have done better. I wouldn't say our situation was get there idous as we had a clear path between the two thunderstorms so I think we were ok in that context. When it came to us flying into the cell we should have had the onboard weather radar running, this would have gave us accurate weather readings allowing us to know that we were about to fly into a rapidly growing cell. Even with us flying that close to two rapidly growing thunderstorms it should have been instinct to have the onboard radar running giving us information as it scans back and forth getting radar returns.

Example of the weather radar on the left and the NEXRAD on the map on the right

With this experience it has taught me to always have backup instruments running so you have more data to make poise decisions.

If there is one thing I can preach to new pilots, it's that there will be moments in your flying career where you will be put up to the task of making poised decisions. My best advice towards this is learn from your mistakes. In our case, we should have ran the weather radar to make sure our decisions were smart. If it weren't for this memorable experience it would not have made me a better pilot. Learn from your mistakes and use it to grow and fly safe!

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  New research indicates that severe space weather events, such as solar flares, disrupt birds' navigational skills during long migrations.

  Previous research has indicated that when flying at night, birds (and many other animals) use Earth's magnetic field for navigation. Because solar events disrupt the magnetic field — as well as produce auroras — birds have more difficulty navigating during them. The new study analyzed images taken from 37 NEXRAD Doppler weather radar stations, which can detect groups of migrating birds, as well as data from ground-based magnetometers, to study 23 years of bird migration across the U.S. Great Plains. The 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) span from North Dakota to Texas is considered a major migratory corridor for birds.

    "The biggest challenge was trying to distill such a large dataset — years and years of ground magnetic field observations — into a geomagnetic disturbance index for each radar site," Daniel Welling, University of Michigan space scientist said in a statement. "There was a lot of heavy lifting in terms of assessing data quality and validating our final data product to ensure that it was appropriate for this study."

  The work paid off. The researchers discovered that the number of migrating birds in this region decreases by 9 to 17 percent during severe space weather events. They also noticed increased rates of birds becoming lost during migration, a phenomenon known as migratory bird vagrancy.

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Radar is a system that uses electromagnetic waves to detect objects and measure distances. The word doppler comes from a physicist called Christian Doppler who discovered that sound shifts in frequency as the source of sound moves closer or farther away. So, this means that if a wave has an object moving towards it, its frequency will be higher than if it was stationary. It is also known as a Doppler shift. What does a doppler radar do? A radar can use electromagnetic waves to find out what the speed and direction of motion are for any object by measuring how they change with time. They also measure heights, lengths, widths and other distances based on these calculations. These measurements can help forecasters see whether there are storms coming or where wind speeds are located so they can issue weather alerts early enough for people to prepare for bad weather conditions.

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What is doppler radar and what does it do? A doppler radar is a type of weather radar that measures wind speeds and precipitation. It can also measure the direction, height and width of rain, snow or hail. What does a doppler radar measure? One important thing that a doppler radar measures is winds. If you are looking at an area with high winds and want to know if they are severe, the doppler radar will tell you how strong they are (i.e., whether they are over 55 miles per hour). The doppler radar will also tell you what direction the wind is coming from and where it's going to go (i.e., north or east).

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There are three different types of doppler radar which help measure different things. The first type of doppler radar is WSR-88D or NEXRAD and it measures rain rate, wind speed and direction, temperature and humidity in addition to precipitation. The second type of doppler radar is called TDWR or TEMPO and it measures rainfall rates over a very short period of time. The third type of doppler radar is called ASOS or AWOS. These two radars monitor aviation weather conditions such as visibility and cloud cover.

What does Doppler Radar Measure? It Measures Rain Rate, Wind Speed and Direction, Temperature, Humidity and Precipitation: The National Weather Service uses these measurements to make forecasts by predicting what will happen next with the weather.

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Doppler radar is an important tool for meteorologists. What does a doppler radar do? It provides information about wind speed and direction, temperature, and more. However, it can take hours before a storm has enough energy to be detected by this weather tool. Other disadvantages include not being able to detect storms that are too low in the atmosphere or located near mountains or buildings. There are some advantages of using doppler radar though! For example, a doppler radar may be able to detect rainfall from thunderstorms with little rainfall accumulation. When these types of storms occur, we need this type of technology because sometimes the heaviest rain occurs outside of where people live.

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