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DOI	10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105432
	A review of the impact of transient luminous events on the atmospheric chemistry: Past; present; and future
	Gordillo-Vázquez F.J.; Pérez-Invernón F.J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0169-8095
卷号	252
英文摘要	Atmospheric electricity has been intensively studied during the last 30 years after the discovery in 1989 of different forms of upper atmospheric electrical discharges (so–called Transient Luminous Events) triggered by lightning in the troposphere. In spite of the significant number of investigations that led to important new results unveiling how lightning produces a zoo of transient electrical discharges from the upper troposphere to the mesosphere, there is still no clear understanding about how all sort of TLEs – including those that occur inside thunderclouds – can contribute to the chemistry of the atmosphere both at the local and global scale. This review paper aims at presenting a perspective on the TLE atmospheric chemistry research done in the past, in the present as well as to describe some of the challenges that await ahead to find the true scientific importance of the non-equilibrium atmospheric chemistry triggered by TLEs. This review comes to conclude that while the global chemical impact of elves and halos are almost negligible, the large scale chemical impact of sprites, blue jets and blue starters and that of impulsive cloud corona discharges might be non–negligible in terms of their possibly measurable contribution to important greenhouse gases such as ozone and nitrous oxide (N2O). Being the third strongest greenhouse gas (after carbon dioxide and methane) and by having the ability to deplete ozone, precise determination of atmospheric N2O sources is of increasing and pressing demand. A new era in atmospheric electricity is just emerging in which dedicated scientific space missions (ISS–LIS, ASIM) together with geostationary lightning sensors (since 2016) and new micro–scale and parameterizations of TLEs in general atmospheric chemistry circulation models will hopefully help to start clarifying the full role of TLEs in the chemistry of the atmosphere. © 2020 The Author(s)
英文关键词	Atmospheric chemistry; Cloud corona discharges; Greenhouse gases; Imaging; Lightning; Modeling; Spectroscopy; Streamers; TLEs
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Carbon dioxide; Electric corona; Greenhouse gases; Ionosphere; Lightning; Nitrogen oxides; Ozone; Power quality; Troposphere; Atmospheric electrical discharges; Chemical impacts; Circulation models; Corona discharges; Electrical discharges; Precise determinations; Transient luminous events; Upper troposphere; Atmospheric chemistry
来源期刊	Atmospheric Research
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/162074
作者单位	Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA - CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, Granada, 18008, Spain; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gordillo-Vázquez F.J.,Pérez-Invernón F.J.. A review of the impact of transient luminous events on the atmospheric chemistry: Past; present; and future[J],2021,252.
APA	Gordillo-Vázquez F.J.,&Pérez-Invernón F.J..(2021).A review of the impact of transient luminous events on the atmospheric chemistry: Past; present; and future.Atmospheric Research,252.
MLA	Gordillo-Vázquez F.J.,et al."A review of the impact of transient luminous events on the atmospheric chemistry: Past; present; and future".Atmospheric Research 252(2021).