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contributor authorIdone, Vincent P.
contributor authorOrville, Richard E.
contributor authorHenderson, Ronald W.
date accessioned2017-06-09T14:00:17Z
date available2017-06-09T14:00:17Z
date copyright1984/07/01
date issued1984
identifier issn0733-3021
identifier otherams-10752.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4145904
description abstractWe describe the circumstances and effects of a cloud-to-ground lightning flash that lowered positive charge and struck a residential home near Albany, New York. The characteristics of the flash were detected and recorded by a wide-band magnetic direction-finding system operating along the East Coast. The flash contained one stroke, had an estimated peak current of 70 kA and was apparently the only ground flash in the storm. A 70 mm2 hole in a section of iron roof flashing suggests that the charge transfer may have been between 25 and 150 coulomb, depending upon assumptions. Vertical shear in the horizontal wind at the time of the flash is estimated to have been 3 m s?1 km?1, a value consistent with previous observations of lightning lowering positive charge.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleGround Truth: A Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash
typeJournal Paper
journal volume23
journal issue7
journal titleJournal of Climate and Applied Meteorology
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0450(1984)023<1148:GTAPCT>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage1148
journal lastpage1151
treeJournal of Climate and Applied Meteorology:;1984:;volume( 023 ):;issue: 007
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