Properties of ball lightning generated by a pulsed discharge on surface of an electrolyte in the atmosphere

IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 731-733

  Hayashi, Noriyuki ^a   Satomi, Hiroko ^b   Kajiwara, Toshinori ^b   Tanabe, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ball lightning; Electrolyte; Lifetime; Long lived plasmoid; Pulsed discharge; Size; Surface discharge

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTES; SURFACE DISCHARGES; WATER POLLUTION;

BALL LIGHTNING; LIFETIME; LONG-LIVED PLASMOID; PULSED DISCHARGE; SIZE;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 55349092007     PISSN: 19314973     EISSN: 19314981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tee.20336     Document Type: Article

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