Abstract
A quantitative self-consistent model of the processes determined by the multiple runaway breakdown caused by the thunderstorm electric field is presented for the first time. It describes in detail the bremsstrahlung emission and fast charge transfer, and reaches a qualitative agreement with the earlier observations obtained during a balloon flight through a thunderstorm. The model demonstrates the exact realization of a fast charge transfer in a thunderstorm cloud. This process first predicted by Gurevich et al. [Phys. Lett. A 165 (1992) 463] is determined by multiple runaway breakdown. It plays an important role, may be even a decisive one in the lightning triggering and has a strong influence on the development of a thunderstorm.
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