Laser triggers electrical activity in thunderstorm for the first time
Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.