A high speed optical imaging system for studying lightning attachment process

2011 7th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning, APL2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 937-940

  Wang, Daohong ^a   Watanabe, Tomohumi ^a   Takagi, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

lightning attachment; lightning leader; return stroke

Indexed keywords

ATTACHMENT PROCESS; DATA COLLECTION; FLORIDA; HIGH-TIME RESOLUTION; INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LIGHTNING RESEARCH AND TESTING; LIGHTNING ATTACHMENT; LIGHTNING LEADER; OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM; RETURN STROKE; TRIGGERED LIGHTNING; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 84862940493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APL.2011.6111050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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