Telecommunications and Radio Engineering

ISSN for PRINT: 0040-2508

For Online Access

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2008, Volume67

Issue 18

94 pages

Issue price - $271.00

I. G. Kudintseva
V. Karazin National University of Kharkov, 4, Svoboda sq., Kharkov, 61077, Ukraine

A. P. Nickolaenko
A. Usikov Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 12, Academician Proskura St., Kharkov 61085, Ukraine

Masashi Hayakawa
The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu-city, Tokyo, Japan

Pulsed electric fields were computed in the neutral atmosphere above a powerful positive bent stroke of lightning that contains vertical and horizontal sections, each 10 km long. We demonstrate the fine structure of the field arising in the space due to a combination of delayed pulses from vertical and horizontal sections of the causative discharge. The electric field distribution depends on time and on the stroke orientation with respect to an elevated observer. Characteristic size of 'filaments' in the transient electric field is about 1 km along the horizontal direction, and it reaches a few tens of kilometers in the height.

Download article, 1691-1699 pages

Article price - $35.00

<< Previous article