Inverted-polarity electrical structures in thunderstorms in the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS)

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 247-271

  Rust, W David ^a,b   MacGorman, Donald R ^a,b   Bruning, Eric C ^b   Weiss, Stephanie A ^b   Krehbiel, Paul R ^c   Thomas, Ronald J ^c   Rison, William ^c   Hamlin, Timothy ^c   Harlin, Jeremiah ^c  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies ^*  (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge; Electric field; Lightning; Lightning mapping; Sounding; Storm electricity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUDS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VECTORS;

CHARGE DEPOSITION; CHARGE STRUCTURE; INVERTED-POLARITY ELECTRICAL STRUCTURES; NORMAL-POLARITY STORMS;

THUNDERSTORMS;

ELECTRIFICATION; LIGHTNING; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 23144435363     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.11.029     Document Type: Article

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