Catalog of 2017 Thunderstorm Ground Enhancement (TGE) events observed on Aragats

• Published in: Scientific reports 2019-04, Vol.9 (1), p.6253-6253, Article 6253
• Main Authors: Chilingarian, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Karapetyan, G., Chilingaryan, S., Sargsyan, B., Arestakesyan, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 639/766/1960/1137; 704/106/35/823; Data processing; High-altitude environments; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Statistical analysis; Statistics
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-42786-7

The natural electron accelerator in the clouds above Aragats high-altitude research station in Armenia operates continuously in 2017 providing more than 100 Thunderstorm Ground enhancements (TGEs). Most important discovery based on analysis of 2017 data is observation and detailed description of the long-lasting TGEs. We present TGE catalog for 2 broad classes according to presence or absence of the high-energy particles. In the catalog was summarized several key parameters of the TGEs and related meteorological and atmospheric discharge observations. The statistical analysis of the data collected in tables reveals the months when TGEs are more frequent, the daytime when TGEs mostly occurred, the mean distance to lightning flash that terminates TGE and many other interesting relations. Separately was discussed the sharp count rate decline and following removal of high-energy particles from the TGE flux after a lightning flash. ADEI multivariate visualization and statistical analysis platform make analytical work on sophisticated problems rather easy; one can try and test many hypotheses very fast and come to a definite conclusion allowing crosscheck and validation