The effect of air density on atmospheric electric fields required for lightning initiation from a long airborne object

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-138

  Bazelyan, E M ^a   Aleksandrov, N L ^b   Raizer, Yu P ^c   Konchakov, A M ^b  

^a Krzhizhanovsky Power Engineering Institute   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Airborne object; Lightning initiation; Reduced air density; Streamer initiation; Viable leader

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHTNING;

AIRBORNE OBJECT; LIGHTNING INITIATION; REDUCED AIR DENSITY;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASMA;

EID: 35148899230     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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