Lightning strikes to tall objects: Currents inferred from far electromagnetic fields versus directly measured currents

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Baba, Yoshihiro ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^b  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FAR-FIELD-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION FACTOR; PEAK CURRENTS; TRANSMISSION LINE MODEL;

LIGHTNING;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHTNING; MODELING;

EID: 37249083065     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030870     Document Type: Article

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