| contributor author | Moore, C. B. | |
| contributor author | Aulich, G. D. | |
| contributor author | Rison, William | |
| date accessioned | 2017-06-09T14:08:49Z | |
| date available | 2017-06-09T14:08:49Z | |
| date copyright | 2003/07/01 | |
| date issued | 2003 | |
| identifier issn | 0894-8763 | |
| identifier other | ams-13261.pdf | |
| identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4148692 | |
| description abstract | Conventional lightning rods used in the United States have sharp tips, a practice derived from Benjamin Franklin's discovery of a means to obtain protection from lightning. However, the virtue of sharp tips for strike reception has never been established. An examination of the relevant physics shows that very strong electric fields are required above the tips of rods in order that they function as strike receptors but that the gradients of the field strength over sharp-tipped rods are so great that, at distances of a few millimeters, the local fields are often too weak for the development of upward-going streamers. In field tests, rods with rounded tips have been found to be better strike receptors than were nearby sharp-tipped rods. | |
| publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
| title | The Case for Using Blunt-Tipped Lightning Rods as Strike Receptors | |
| type | Journal Paper | |
| journal volume | 42 | |
| journal issue | 7 | |
| journal title | Journal of Applied Meteorology | |
| identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0450(2003)042<0984:TCFUBL>2.0.CO;2 | |
| journal fristpage | 984 | |
| journal lastpage | 993 | |
| tree | Journal of Applied Meteorology:;2003:;volume( 042 ):;issue: 007 | |
| contenttype | Fulltext | |