Colin price's research lab
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Ocean acidification due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere may result in oceanic lightning becoming more powerful.
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The most intense hurricanes in the Atlantic start off as thunderstorms over Africa
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Could the evolution of living beings on Earth be related to the electric fields generated in the atmosphere by lightning?
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How have thunderstorms over Africa changed over the last 70 years?
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Can atmospheric electric fields from lightning protect heart cells?
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Can the sensors in smartphones be used to monitor the weather and natural disasters?
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Do shooting stars produce music as they enter the atmosphere?
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Where are hurricanes born? Their origins are often over Africa.
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Where are global thunderstorms located? And how many are there?
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Radio Waves bounce of the upper atmosphere (ionosphere). Changes in these waves may provide a new way of monitoring our changing climate.
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Will climate change lead to more intense thunderstorms around the globe?
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Could upper atmospheric flashes call "sprites" exist on other planters like Jupiter and Saturn?
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Is there a link between lightning and the smoke from fires in the Amazon jungle?
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The Sun rotates around its axes every 27 days. We found a way to monitor this using lightning data on Earth.
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Lightning activity in hurricanes peak one day before the most destructive, intense winds appear.