Waveshapes of continuing currents and properties of M-components in natural positive cloud-to-ground lightning

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2-4, 2009, Pages 416-424

  Campos, Leandro Z S ^a,b   Saba, Marcelo M F ^a   Pinto Jr , Osmar ^a   Ballarotti, Maurício G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Continuing current waveshapes; High speed video; M components; Positive lightning

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; LUMINANCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEED; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVE EFFECTS;

CG LIGHTNINGS; CONTINUING CURRENT WAVESHAPES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; DIRECT CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; GROUND LIGHTNINGS; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; M-COMPONENTS; NEGATIVE LIGHTNINGS; POSITIVE LIGHTNING; WORK ANALYSES;

LIGHTNING;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

BRAZIL; SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

EID: 58149352808     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.02.020     Document Type: Article

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