Positive streamer initiation from raindrops in thundercloud fields

Prediction of Lightning Inception by Large Ice Particles and Extensive Air Showers

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Streamer formation and branching from model hydrometeors in subbreakdown conditions inside thunderclouds

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A model for electric field enhancement in lightning leader tips to levels allowing X-ray and γ ray emissions

(2015) L. P. Babich et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS

Mechanism of generation of runaway electrons in a lightning leader

(2014) L. P. Babich et al.   JETP LETTERS

Surface Tension of Supercooled Water: No Inflection Point down to −25 °C

(2014) Jan Hrubý et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Numerical simulations of local thundercloud field enhancements caused by runaway avalanches seeded by cosmic rays and their role in lightning initiation

(2012) Leonid P. Babich et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Lightning initiation mechanism based on the development of relativistic runaway electron avalanches triggered by background cosmic radiation: Numerical simulation

(2011) L. P. Babich et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Numerical simulation of a conducting channel initiated by an extensive air shower in a thunderstorm electric field

(2009) L. P. Babich et al.   GEOMAGNETISM AND AERONOMY

A brief review of the problem of lightning initiation and a hypothesis of initial lightning leader formation

(2008) Danyal Petersen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH