Tag: spectroscopy

• Atmospheric science in a bolt of lightning

  Lightning is beautiful, frightening, and destructive. When a difference in electrical charge builds up between clouds and the ground (or another cloud), that charge can balance itself by discharging suddenly and violently. It’s one of the most powerful electrical phenomena we can encounter in our daily lives (at least those of us who live in…

  Matthew R. Francis

  August 30, 2013

  Astronomy, Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields

  electromagnetism, lightning, spectroscopy