air discharge

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air discharge [′er ′dis‚chärj]

(geophysics)

A form of lightning discharge, intermediate in character between a cloud discharge and a cloud-to-ground discharge, in which the multibranching lightning channel descending from a cloud base does not reach the ground, but succeeds only in neutralizing the space charge distributed in the subcloud layer.

A type of diffuse electrical discharge occasionally reported as occurring in the region above an active thunderstorm.

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