The effect of the thunderstorm activity on the tien shan neutron monitor data

V. P. Antonova, Aleksandr V. Gurevich, Кирилл Петрович Зыбин, Anatoly N. Karashtin, S. V. Kryukov, V. A. Ryabov, Mikhail O. Ptitsyn, А. П. Чубенко, Yu. V. Shlyugaev, A. L. Shchepetov

2009

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DOI 10.3103/s1062873809030344

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Abstract

Variations in the neutron monitor counting rate at the at the mountain level (3340 m above sea level) during the passage of electrically charged clouds above the installation have been investigated. It is established that the decrease in the counting rate with respect to fair-weather level is due to positive values of the atmospheric electric field (∼40–50 kV m −1 ). This effect is observed in the low-energy part of the neutron component intensity and is absent in the high-energy part (neutron emission multiplicity exceeds 6).