Modeling of lightning generated electric field transitional processes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 3833-3836

  Smirnova, E I ^a   Mareev, E A ^b   Chugunov, Yu V ^b  

^a LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTROSTATICS; LIGHTNING;

CHANNEL PROPAGATION; CLOUD TO GROUND DISCHARGE; QUASI-ELECTROSTATIC MODEL; THUNDERCLOUD ELECTRIC STRUCTURE;

GEOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; LIGHTNING;

CHANNEL PROPAGATION; CONDUCTING CHANNELS; DISCHARGE INITIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD GENERATION; ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; ELECTRIC-FIELD PERTURBATIONS; ELECTROSTATIC MODELING; TRANSITIONAL PROCESS;

EID: 0034481032     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011158     Document Type: Article

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