Extreme thunderstorm ground enhancements registered on Aragats in 2023
Description
We present the catalog of thunderstorm ground enhancements (TGEs) collected by 24/7 monitoring of various particle fluxes, environmental parameters, and near-surface electric fields on the slopes of Mt. Aragats in Armenia in 2023. Previously, we published in Mendeley the catalog of TGE events registered in 2013-2022. In the posted dataset are shown 12 parameters of 55 TGEs observed in 2023. From the links to each TGE event, all multivariate measurements from the hundreds of registration channels are available. We present our measurements on a user-friendly site, allowing further correlation analysis by colleagues worldwide. The users are provided with multivariate data to continue the research and come to new interesting physical results. The survey of TGE physics and TGE selection procedure users can be found in the paper attached to the dataset, the details of Aragats station facilities, and data analysis methods in the WiKI section of ADEI, accessible from links in the dataset. EXEL file description: TGE dataset for 2023 In the first column of the table, we put the date of the TGE. In the second - the links to the TGE picture at the ADEI data analysis platform. From these links whole database with hundreds of measuring channels operated from 2008 (in 2008-2013 without electric sensors and weather stations) is available. In the third to fifth columns of the table, we show the TGE significance - the percent of flux enhancement relative to fair weather value measured just before TGE. 3 particle detectors were used, plastic scintillators with 1 m2 area and thicknesses of 1,3 and 5 cm. In the sixth and seventh columns, we post the outside temperature and the dew point. In the eighth column, we show the distance to the cloud base in meters. In the ninth column, we show the strength of the near-surface electric field (NSEF) measured on the maximum of the TGE by the EFM-100 sensor of BOLETEK company. In the tenth column, we post the minimum and maximum NSEF values measured during TGE. In the eleventh column, we show the distance to the nearest lightning flash that occurred during TGE. In the twelfth column, we put the code 1 if a lightning flash abruptly terminated TGE and 0 if it didn’t. In the 13th column is the time of the TGE start, and in the 14th is - the TGE duration.