Review of triggered-lightning experiments at the ICLRT at Camp Blanding, Florida

2003 IEEE Bologna PowerTech - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 761-768

  Rakov, V A ^a   Mata, C T ^b   Uman, M A ^a   Rambo, K J ^a   Mata, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounding electrodes; Lightning; MOV arresters; Power distribution lines; Underground cables

Indexed keywords

FLORIDA; POWER DISTRIBUTION LINES; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM;

ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDING ELECTRODES; UNDERGROUND CABLES;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 64149122044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PTC.2003.1304477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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