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Observations of thunder with the arecibo vhf radar
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Holden, D. N. Larsen, M. F. |
| Copyright Year | 1986 |
| Description | An experiment was carried out at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in August 1985 to study Doppler velocities in a thunderstorm environment with a beam pointed 2.5 degrees off-vertical. Researchers detected two types of echoes associated with lightning. The first was associated with scattering from the lightning channel itself and had characteristics similar to those observed previously with meteorological radars. The second appeared to be due to scattering from the turbulence organized by phase fronts of an acoustic wave generated by lightning. The observations were consistent with a wave traveling at a velocity near the speed of sound and having a vertical phase velocity component of 40 m/s. |
| File Size | 313425 |
| Page Count | 6 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19870001011 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t93827r2f |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1986-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Sound Waves Thunderstorms Backscattering Refractivity Superhigh Frequencies Velocity Atmospheric Turbulence Lightning Spectrum Analysis Radar Radar Scattering Radar Echoes Doppler Radar Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |