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We have seen that the creation of ball lightning objects is closely related to normal lightning and especially to cloud-to-ground lightning. In order to understand the conditions that are created by cloud-to-ground lightning, we must take a closer look at electrical discharges in air: the corona, the streamers, and the leaders. St. Elmos fire, mentioned above, is just such a form of corona discharge.
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Pierce, E. T. et al (1960), An Experimental Investigation of Negative Point-plane Corona and Its Relation to Ball Lightning, AVCO corporation RAD TR-60-29
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Boerner, H. (2019). Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers. In: Ball Lightning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20783-0_6
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