Electric field pulse trains occurring prior to the first stroke in negative cloud-to-ground lightning

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 147-150

  Nag, Amitabh ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric fields; Lightning; Pulse analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; LIGHTNING; LOCOMOTIVES; PULSE GENERATORS; RAILROAD CARS;

ARITHMETIC MEANS; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNINGS; ELECTRIC FIELD PULSE; FLORIDA; INTERPULSE INTERVALS; PULSE ANALYSIS; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE TRAINS; SUB MICROSECONDS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 61649123087     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2008.2005488     Document Type: Article

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