• DocumentCode
    172115
  • Title

    Occurrence of Narrow Bipolar Pulses between negative return strokes in tropical thunderstorms

  • Author

    Esa, Mona Riza Mohd ; Ahmad, Mohd Ridzuan ; Cooray, V. ; Esa, Mona Riza Mohd

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng. Sci., Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    11-18 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1141
  • Lastpage
    1142
  • Abstract
    This paper reports a recent observation of Narrow Bipolar Pulses (NBPs) occurrence between return strokes (RSs) of negative cloud-to-ground (CG) flashes in tropical thunderstorms. A wideband electric field antenna measurement system has been used in this work and 173 isolated and non-isolated NBPs managed to be recorded. We found that 22 single NBPs and a pair of positive NBP embedded between RSs and some of them are located within the horizontal distance range from 20 to 45 km from the observation station.
  • Keywords
    atmospheric electricity; thunderstorms; cloud-to-ground flashes; isolated NBP; narrow bipolar pulses; negative return strokes; observation station; tropical thunderstorms; wideband electric field antenna measurement system; Antenna measurements; Discharges (electric); Electric fields; Electric variables measurement; Fault location; Wideband; cloud-to-ground flash; narrow bipolar pulses;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lightning Protection (ICLP), 2014 International Conference o
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICLP.2014.6973297
  • Filename
    6973297