Horizontal Field Generated by Lightning with the Surface Impedance Method

DOI

10.2991/isrme-15.2015.285How to use a DOI?

Keywords

electromagnetic field; horizontal field; surface impedance method

Abstract

The lightning produces a powerful lightning current, and it caused the electromagnetic fields, the optical radiation, the shock wave and the thunder and so on physical effects. Electromagnetic fields generated by lightning are divided into horizontal electric field and vertical electric field. The accurate calculation of the electromagnetic field generated by lightning has an important role in lightning research work. In this paper, a new method by using the expression for the surface impedance of the earth with finite conductivity was presented, and the results of horizontal field calculated from wave tilt and surface impedance with exact expression is compared. The new method is suit for calculating horizontal field generated by return strokes at distances as close as 200 m, while these close ranges the use of the wave tilt expression can cause large errors.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wei He
AU  - Jiajia He
AU  - Ping Lu
PY  - 2015/04
DA  - 2015/04
TI  - Horizontal Field Generated by Lightning with the Surface Impedance Method
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Intelligent Systems Research and Mechatronics Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1423
EP  - 1426
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isrme-15.2015.285
DO  - 10.2991/isrme-15.2015.285
ID  - He2015/04
ER  -