Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Characteristics of return stroke electric fields produced by lightning flashes at distances of 1 to 15 kilometers

Author
Hopf, CH.
Published
Aug 1, 1991.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Online Version

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Restrictions on Access
Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
Summary
Electric field derivative signals from single and multiple lightning strokes are presented. For about 25 pct. of all acquired waveforms, produced by return strokes, stepped leaders or intracloud discharges, type and distance of the signal source are known from the observations by an all sky video camera system. The analysis of the electric field derivative waveforms in the time domain shows a significant difference in the impulse width between return stroke signals and those of stepped leaders and intracloud discharges. In addition, the computed amplitude density spectrum of return stroke waveforms lies by a factor of 10 above that of stepped leaders and intracloud discharges in the frequency range from 50 to 500 kHz.
Other Subject(s)
Collection
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 19910023301.
Accession ID: 91N32615.
NASA. Kennedy Space Center, The 1991 International Aerospace and Ground Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity, Volume 1; 6 p.
Terms of Use and Reproduction
No Copyright.
View MARC record | catkey: 15679311