Woodman Pollitt, Ronald FranciscoKudeki, Erhan2018-07-042018-07-041984-12Woodman, R. F., & Kudeki, E. (1984). A causal relationship between lightning and explosive spread F.==$Geophysical Research Letters, 11$==(12), 1165-1167. https://doi.org/10.1029/GL011i012p01165index-oti2018http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12816/1697Experimental evidence for a causal relationship between lightning and explosive equatorial spread F is presented. It is proposed that explosive spread F is produced by rapidly growing plasma instabilities, which are triggered by sudden increases of the F region ambient electric fields due to the penetration of lightning fields into regions of weak or marginal instability.application/pdfenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessIonospherePlasmaElectric fieldsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.01Geophysical Research Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1029/GL011i012p01165