Rise times of impulsive high-current processes in cloud-to-ground lightning

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1442-1451

  Willett, John C ^b   Krider, E Philip ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; ELECTRIC FIELD DERIVATIVE WAVEFORMS; FULL-WIDTH AT HALF-MAXIMUM;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 0034261625     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.898779     Document Type: Article

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