A review of statistics on lightning currents in relation to the lightning incidence of new-generation wind turbines

International Review of Electrical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1285-1296

  Sarajčev, Petar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Lightning; Log normal distribution; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955643397     PISSN: 18276660     EISSN: 25332244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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