Statistics of lightning strikes to the Toronto Canadian National Tower (1978-1995)

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1210-1219

  Janischewskyj, W ^a,b   Rusan, I ^c   Hussein, A M ^a,c   Li, J X ^d   Shostak, V ^a,e   Chang, J S ^a,f  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lightning parameters at tall structures; Lightning protection

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FLASHOVER; LIGHTNING; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICS;

LIGHTNING STRIKES;

ELECTRIC TOWERS;

EID: 0031176476     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.636949     Document Type: Article

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