Cloud-to-ground lightning dipole moment from simultaneous observations by ELF receiver and combined direction finding and time-of-arrival lightning detection system

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Nieckarz, Zenon ^a   Kulak, Andrzej ^a,b   Zieba, Stanislaw ^a   Odzimek, Anna ^c,d  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE MOMENT; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THUNDERSTORMS;

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; CONTINUING CURRENT; DATA SETS; DIRECTION FINDING; LIGHTNING DETECTION; LIGHTNING FLASHES; LOCAL ACTIVITY; PEAK CURRENTS; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL;

LIGHTNING;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; AUTOMATION; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; THUNDERSTORM;

EUROPE;

EID: 79955064000     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014736     Document Type: Article

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