Positive leader characteristics from high-speed video observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Saba, Marcelo M F ^a   Cummins, Kenneth L ^b   Warner, Tom A ^c   Krider, E Philip ^b   Campos, Leandro Z S ^a,d   Ballarotti, Mauricio G ^a   Pinto Jr , Osmar ^a   Fleenor, Stacy A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c ZT Research   (United States)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHTNING; PHOTOGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING;

(2+1)-DIMENSIONAL; CLOUD-TO-GROUND (CG) LIGHTNING; HIGH FRAME RATES; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO;

TURBULENT FLOW;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; VIDEOGRAPHY;

BRAZIL; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45549105911     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL033000     Document Type: Article

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