Brother TGF
- 1University of Valencia, IPL, Paterna, Spain (javier.navarro-gonzalez@uv.es)
- 2Polytechnic University of Catalunya
- 3University of Bergen, Birkeland Center
- 4Technical University of Denmark
ASIM TGF catalog presents more than one thousand TGF from June 2018 till the end of 2021. Using this dataset, the detection rate of TGF by ASIM was about one TGF per day. The TGF detection is a stochastic process (each TGF is not related with the next) assuming this, the time-difference distribution between one detection and the next should fit an exponential distribution. This time between TGF events distribution fits the exponential with a significant deviation. We see an excess in the number of TGF separated by less than 5 min. From the expected value of less than 1% of the events, we have an 8% of the events in this range. We call that TGF population with a time separation of fewer than 5 minutes “Brother TGF”. Large storm areas could explain this deviation, because of the storm size or also the propagation effects of the TGF inside the storm as an effective mechanism to increase the TGF production in this region. This work we present is a detailed study of the most relevant “Brothers” in the ASIM TGF imaging list. With this, we can locate where these Brothers TGF are located, and add some clues about this Brother TGF production mechanism.
How to cite: Navarro-González, J., Connell, P., Eyles, C., Reglero, V., López, J. A., Montanyà, J., Marisaldi, M., Mezentzev, A., Kochkin, P., Lindanger, A., Sarria, D., Østgaard, N., Chanrion, O., Christiansen, F., and Neubert, T.: Brother TGF, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-8201, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-8201, 2022.