Estimation of input energy in rocket-triggered lightning

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Jayakumar, Vinod ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^a   Miki, Megumu ^b   Uman, Martin A ^a   Schnetzer, George H ^a   Rambo, Keith J ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; GAS DYNAMICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ESTIMATED MEAN INPUT ENERGY; GAS DYNAMIC MODEL; INPUT ENERGY ESTIMATION; LONGITUDINAL ELECTRIC FIELD; POCKELS SENSOR; ROCKET-TRIGGERED LIGHTNING;

LIGHTNING;

ELECTRIC FIELD; LIGHTNING; SENSOR;

EID: 33646378410     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025141     Document Type: Article

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