“…Another name employed for this unique stroke is "compact intracloud discharge", or CID (see, e.g., Nag et al, 2010). NBEs, and their accompanying VHF pulse, were originally reported in 1980 (Le Vine, 1980) and have been observed by many workers since (e.g., Hamlin et al, 2007;Holden et al, 1995;Jacobson, 2003a, b;Light, 2003, 2012;Jacobson and Heavner, 2005;Jacobson et al, 2007Jacobson et al, , 2011Massey and Holden, 1995;Massey et al, 1998;Nag andRakov, 2009, 2010a, b;Nag et al, 2010;Rison et al, 1999;Smith et al, 1999b;Thomas et al, 2001;Watson and Marshall, 2007;Wu et al, 2011Wu et al, , 2012.…”