iSTORM (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

iSTORM

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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Research Physicist Daniel Shy, Ph.D., integrated the array of CeBr3 scintillators installed into the in-Situ Thunderstorm Observer for Radiation Mechanisms (iSTORM) housing to provide paradigm-changing observations of ionizing radiation from tropical thunderstorms aboard a NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft in support of the Airborne Lightning Observatory for the Fly’s Eye Global Lightning Monitor Simulator and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (ALOFT) campaign in July 2023. (Photo provided by Daniel Shy)

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Daniel Shy

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