DocumentCode
171790
Title
The characteristics of winter lightning in Hokkaido as observed by the JLDN
Author
Matsui, Masaki ; Hara, Yoshitaka
Author_Institution
Eng. Div., Franklin Japan Corp., Sagamihara, Japan
fYear
2014
fDate
11-18 Oct. 2014
Firstpage
116
Lastpage
121
Abstract
It has been reported that winter lightning occurring along the coastal area of the Sea of Japan has different characteristics when compared to summer lightning. However, those reports described the characteristics only in the coastal area of Honshu, the main island of Japan and there are no reports regarding winter lightning in the region of the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido. The authors have studied the characteristics of winter lightning observed by the Japanese Lightning Detection Network (JLDN) in the Hokkaido region and report the results of our studies in this paper. We compare our observations in Honshu and in Hokkaido and report the differences between those regions. This is the first paper describing the characteristics of winter lightning in Hokkaido.
Keywords
lightning; oceanographic regions; Hokkaido; Honshu; Japan Sea; Japanese Lightning Detection Network; summer lightning; winter lightning; Cities and towns; Lightning; Wind turbines; lightning detection; lightning location system; winter lightning;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lightning Protection (ICLP), 2014 International Conference o
Conference_Location
Shanghai
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICLP.2014.6973105
Filename
6973105
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