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Do cosmic ray air showers initiate lightning?: A statistical analysis of cosmic ray air showers and lightning mapping array data

Hare, B. M.; Dwyer, Joseph R.; Winner, Lawrence H.; Uman, Martin A.; Jordan, Douglas M.; Kotovsky, D. A.; Caicedo, J. A.; Wilkes, R. A.; Carvalho, Filipa L.; Rassoul, Hamid K. (2017)

It has been argued in the technical literature, and widely reported in the popular press, that cosmic ray air showers (CRASs) can initiate lightning via a mechanism known as relativistic runaway electron avalanche (RREA), ...