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Rocket-and-wire triggered lightning in 2012 tropical storm Debby in the absence of natural lightning

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis […]

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RF and X-ray source locations during the lightning attachment process

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

RF and X-ray source locations during the lightning attachment process Read More »

Properties of the X-ray emission from rocket-triggered lightning as measured by the Thunderstorm Energetic Radiation Array (TERA)

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Properties of the X-ray emission from rocket-triggered lightning as measured by the Thunderstorm Energetic Radiation Array (TERA) Read More »

Performance characteristics of the NLDN for return strokes and pulses superimposed on steady currents, based on rocket-triggered lightning data acquired in Florida in 2004–2012

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Performance characteristics of the NLDN for return strokes and pulses superimposed on steady currents, based on rocket-triggered lightning data acquired in Florida in 2004–2012 Read More »

Observations of the initial, upward-propagating, positive leader steps in a rocket-and-wire triggered lightning discharge

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Observations of the initial, upward-propagating, positive leader steps in a rocket-and-wire triggered lightning discharge Read More »

Observations of stepping mechanisms in a rocket‐and‐wire triggered lightning flash

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Observations of stepping mechanisms in a rocket‐and‐wire triggered lightning flash Read More »

Observation of a gamma-ray flash at ground level in association with a cloud-to-ground lightning return stroke

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Observation of a gamma-ray flash at ground level in association with a cloud-to-ground lightning return stroke Read More »

Measurements of Radiation Field Signatures of Rocket-Triggered Lightning

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Measurements of Radiation Field Signatures of Rocket-Triggered Lightning Read More »

Measured close lightning leader‐step electric field–derivative waveforms

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Measured close lightning leader‐step electric field–derivative waveforms Read More »

Lightning attachment processes of an “anomalous” triggered lightning discharge

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Lightning attachment processes of an “anomalous” triggered lightning discharge Read More »

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