The lightning radiation field spectra of cloud flashes in the interval from 20 kHz to 20 MHz

Author

Sonnadara, Upul ; Cooray, Vernon ; Fernando, Mahendra

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Colombo

Volume

48

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

234

Lastpage

239

Abstract

Electric radiation fields produced by lightning cloud flashes have been analyzed using Fourier methods to obtain amplitude spectra for frequencies in the range of 20 kHz to 20 MHz. Time to thunder measurements were used to extract the distances to the cloud flashes from the measurement site. The spectra were generated by analyzing the first 10 ms time window of cloud flashes with 10 ns sampling resolution, and they show f^-1 frequency dependence up to 2 MHz followed by f^-2 dependence and higher for frequencies above 2 MHz. The results agree very well with previous measurements carried out for individual pulses produced by various lightning processes. By utilizing digital filters, it has been shown that measurements taken with narrowband filters agree with the results produced under wideband measurements

Keywords

Fourier analysis; electric fields; lightning; 20 kHz to 20 MHz; Fourier methods; cloud flashes; digital filters; electric radiation fields; lightning radiation field spectra; narrowband filters; Attenuation measurement; Clouds; Digital filters; Frequency; Lightning; Narrowband; Optical propagation; Pulse measurements; Time measurement; Wideband; Cloud flashes; lightning; radiation field spectra;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9375

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TEMC.2006.870692

Filename

1614057