Electromagnetic Methods of Lightning Detection

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 731-753

  Rakov, V A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection efficiency; Lightning electromagnetic field signatures; Lightning locating systems; Location accuracy; Peak current estimation errors; Percentage of misclassified events

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; LIGHTNING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHTNING LOCATING SYSTEMS; LOCATION ACCURACY; PEAK CURRENTS; PERCENTAGE OF MISCLASSIFIED EVENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ERRORS; LIGHTNING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 84886747420     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-013-9251-1     Document Type: Review

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