Global Climate
Robert Dunn, Freya Aldred, Nadine Gobron, J. B. Miller, Kate M. Willett, Melanie Ades, Robert E. Adler, Richard P. Allan, John Anderson, Orlane Anneville, Yasuyuki Aono, Anthony Argüez, Carlo Arosio, John Augustine, César Azorín-Molina, Jonathan Barichivich, Aman Basu, Hylke E. Beck, Nicolas Bellouin, Angela Benedetti, Kevin Blagrave, Stephen Blenkinsop, Olivier Bock, Xavier Bodín, Michael G. Bosilovich, Oliviér Boucher, Gerald Bové, Dennis E. Buechler, Stefan A. Buehler, Laura Carrea, Kai‐Lan Chang, Hanne H. Christiansen, John R. Christy, Eui‐Seok Chung, Laura M. Ciasto, Melanie Coldewey‐Egbers, Owen R. Cooper, Richard Cornes, Curt Covey, Thomas Cropper, Molly Crotwell, Diego Cusicanqui, Sean Davis, Richard de Jeu, D. A. Degenstein, Reynald Delaloye, Markus G. Donat, Wouter Dorigo, Imke Durre, G. S. Dutton, Grégory Duveiller, James W. Elkins, Thomas W. Estilow, Nava Fedaeff, David Fereday, Vitali Fioletov, Johannes Flemming, Michael J. Foster, S. M. Frith, Lucien Froidevaux, Martin Füllekrug, Judith Garforth, Jay Garg, Matthew Gentry, Steven M. Goodman, Qiqi Gou, Nikolay Granin, Mauro Guglielmin, Sebastian Hahn, Leopold Haimberger, B. D. Hall, Ian Harris, Debbie Hemming, Martin Hirschi, Shu-pen Ho, R. H. Holzworth, Filip Hrbáček, Daan Hubert, Petra Hulsman, D. F. Hurst, Antje Inness, Ketil Isaksen, Viju O. John, P. D. Jones, Robert Junod, Andreas Kääb, Johannes W. Kaiser, Viktor Kaufmann, Andreas Kellerer‐Pirklbauer, Elizabeth C. Kent, Richard Kidd, Hyungiun Kim, Zak Kipling, Akash Koppa, Jan Henning L'Abée‐Lund, Xin Lan, Kathleen Lantz, David A. Lavers, Norman G. Loeb, Diego Loyola
Abstract
Caption: Lightning discharges appear in various colours depending on the scatter of light inside the thundercloud and in the atmosphere. The intracloud lightning discharges in the centre of the thundercloud appear to be white with a bluish tint, and the cloud-to-ground discharge below appears to be orange. The right hand side of the thundercloud exhibits a green tint that is attributed to the unique composition of hydrometeors inside the thundercloud.