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The spatial variations of lightning during small florida thunderstorms
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Oram, Timothy D. Krider, E. Philip |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Description | Networks of field mills (FM's) and lightning direction finders (LDF's) were used to locate lightning over the NASA KSC on three storm days. Over 90 percent of all cloud-to-ground (CG) flashes that were detected by the LDF's in the study area were also detected by the LDF's. About 17 percent of the FM CG events could be fitted to either a monopole or a dipole charge model. These projected FM charge locations are compared to LDF locations, i.e., the ground strike points. It was found that 95 percent of the LDF points are within 12 km of the FM charge, 75 percent are within 8 km, and 50 percent are within 4 km. For a storm on 22 Jul. 1988, there was a systematic 5.6 km shift between the FM charge centers and the LDF strike points that might have been caused by the meteorological structure of the storm. |
| File Size | 742460 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19910023397 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t50g8k88h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1991-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Position Location Direction Finding Magnetic Dipoles Thunderstorms Cape Kennedy Launch Complex Atmospheric Models Weather Forecasting Hazards Florida Spacecraft Launching Magnetic Monopoles Position Indicators Spatial Distribution Lightning Magnetic Fields Electric Fields Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
