Performance evaluation for a lightning location system based on observations of artificially triggered lightning and natural lightning flashes

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1835-1844

  Chen, Luwen ^a,b,c   Zhang, Yijun ^a   Lu, Weitao ^a   Zheng, Dong ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Chen, Shaodong ^c   Huang, Zhihui ^c  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Lightning Protection Center of Guangdong Province   (China)

Author keywords

Field experiments; Lightning

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL SAMPLES; ARITHMETIC MEAN; ARTIFICIALLY TRIGGERED LIGHTNING; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GUANGDONG PROVINCE; GUANGZHOU; LIGHTNING FLASHES; LIGHTNING LOCATION SYSTEMS; LOCATION ERRORS; MEDIAN VALUE; OBSERVATION DATA; PEAK CURRENTS; PERCENTAGE ERROR; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POWER GRIDS; STROKE DETECTION; TALL STRUCTURES; TRIGGERED LIGHTNING;

ELECTRIC APPLIANCES;

LIGHTNING;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; DETECTION METHOD; LIGHTNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

CHINA; CONGHUA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 84867638208     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00028.1     Document Type: Article

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