Evaluation of peak current polarity retrieved by the ZEUS long-range lightning monitoring system

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-36

  Morales, Carlos A ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^b   Williams, Earle ^c   Kriz, J Stanley ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d Resolution Displays Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Lightning; Polarity; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PEAK CURRENT POLARITY; VERY LOW FREQUENCY (VLF);

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 33846634211     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.883528     Document Type: Article

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