The relative light intensities produced by five leader steps immediately preceding a return stroke in a discharge to ground are presented with submicrosecond time resolution. A typical step rises from zero to peak in about 1 μs, falls to half peak in 1–2 μs, and then decays slowly until the next step occurs.
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