Luminosity characteristics of lightning M components uri icon

abstract

  • A high-speed streak photograph of a natural cloud-to-ground lightning return stroke followed by two M components is analyzed. The amplitude and waveshape of one M component light pulse is esentially invariant with height between the cloud base (about 1 km) and ground, while the other M component has a relatively constant light waveshape and a light amplitude that varies somewhat with height. The two M component light pulses, exhibit a more or less symmetrical waveshape with a risetime and falltime of the order of many tens of microseconds. -from Authors

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

author list (cited authors)

  • Jordan, D. M., Idone, V. P., Orville, R. E., Rakov, V. A., & Uman, M. A.

citation count

  • 37

complete list of authors

  • Jordan, DM||Idone, VP||Orville, RE||Rakov, VA||Uman, MA

publication date

  • December 1995