On the relationship between the signature of close electric field and the equivalent corona current in lightning return stroke models

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 921-927

  Cooray, Vernon ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^b   Rachidi, Farhad ^c   Montaño, Raul ^d   Nucci, Carlo Alberto ^e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d High Voltage Valley ^*  (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equivalent corona current; Lightning electric field; Return stroke models

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; LIGHTNING; MODELS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RAILROAD TRACKS;

CHANNEL LENGTHS; CORONA CURRENTS; CURRENT GENERATIONS; CURRENT PROPAGATIONS; CURRENT SOURCES; ENGINEERING MODELS; EQUIVALENT CORONA CURRENT; LIGHTNING ELECTRIC FIELD; LIGHTNING FLASHES; LIGHTNING RETURN STROKE MODELS; RETURN STROKE MODELS; RETURN STROKES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TIME DERIVATIVES; TRANSMISSION LINES;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 57049160297     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2008.926918     Document Type: Article

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