X-Ray Emission Associated with Collision of Opposite-Polarity Streamers at the Onset of the Breakthrough Phase of the Lightning Attachment Process

Istvan Kereszy, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Manh D Tran, University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States; Rhombus Power Inc., Moffett Field, CA, United States, Vladimir A Rakov, Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, FL, United States and Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States