Lightning and trees

Lightning Protection

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 843-858

  Fernando, Mahendra ^a   Mäkelä, Jakke ^b   Cooray, Vernon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Bark loss; Explosive damage; Fires; Ground damage; Group damage; Lightning; Lightning protection; Tree ignition; Tree lightning damage probability; Tree lightning damage types; Tree lightning strike probability; Tree lightning interaction; Vegetation; Vegetation damage; Wood loss

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; FORESTRY; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; VEGETATION;

DAMAGE PROBABILITY; DAMAGE TYPE; GROUND DAMAGES; GROUP DAMAGE; LIGHTNING STRIKES; TREE-LIGHTNING INTERACTION; VEGETATION DAMAGE; WOOD LOSS;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 85014202838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1049/PBPO058E_ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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