Some considerations on the "Cooray-Rubinstein" formulation used in deriving the horizontal electric field of lightning return strokes over finitely conducting ground

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 560-566

  Cooray, Vernon ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic transients; Horizontal fields; Induced voltages; Lightning; Return strokes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 0036880821     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2002.804774     Document Type: Article

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