Captured Lightning

Type: Book

As of November 2026, Captured Lightning has been mentioned in one podcast episode on caltech (Jan 2026). A book mentioned in the context of scientific innovations from Caltech graduates.

Upper-atmospheric lightning and ionospheric lightning are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning and storm clouds. Upper-atmospheric lightning is believed to be electrically induced forms of luminous plasma. The preferred usage is transient luminous event (TLE), because the various types of electrical-discharge phenomena in the upper atmosphere lack several characteristics of t