Effect of Tall Instrumented Towers on the Statistical Distributions of Lightning Current Parameters and its Influence on the Power System Lightning Performance Assessment

European Transactions on Electrical Power

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 365-372

  Borghetti, Alberto ^a   Nucci, Carlo Alberto ^a   Paolone, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC INSULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC TOWERS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTNING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CURRENT AMPLITUDES; LIGHTNING CURRENT PARAMETERS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0346266095     PISSN: 1430144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etep.4450130605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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