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DOI | 10.1029/2017JD028248 |
Statistical Distributions of Lightning Peak Currents: Why Do They Appear to Be Lognormal? | |
Slyunyaev, Nikolay N.1; Mareev, Evgeny A.1,2; Rakov, Vladimir A.1,3; Golitsyn, Georgy S.4 | |
2018-05-27 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
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ISSN | 2169-897X |
EISSN | 2169-8996 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 123期号:10页码:5070-5089 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Russia; USA |
英文摘要 | The statistical distribution of peak currents in cloud-to-ground lightning strokes is analyzed and discussed both in the context of the existing experimental data and from a theoretical viewpoint. The distributions of peak currents directly measured at instrumented towers are compared to those of peak currents reported by the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network and peak currents measured in rocket-triggered lightning experiments; all those appear to be lognormal. To explain the observed peak current distributions, a simple model based on the large-scale electric field evolution prior to lightning flashes is developed. Based only on the most general assumptions concerning the probability of occurrence of lightning discharge, it is shown that the distribution of the pre-first-stroke large-scale electric field is close to lognormal in a certain range. With the introduction of structure factors relating the leader or cloud electric potential to this field, semiempirical relationships between the potential and the peak current in negative first and subsequent strokes imply that the peak current and pre-first-stroke large-scale electric field obey distributions of the same type. It is demonstrated that with a suitable choice of parameters, the model-predicted distributions are close to those obtained from direct measurements, and statistical tests show that their agreement with the data is at least as good as that seen for lognormal approximations. |
英文关键词 | lightning peak current statistics lognormal distribution model |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000435445600018 |
WOS关键词 | ELECTRIC-FIELD GROWTH |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/33030 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Russian Acad Sci, Inst Appl Phys, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia; 2.Lobachevsky State Univ Nizhny Novgorod, Dept Radiophys, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia; 3.Univ Florida, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Gainesville, FL USA; 4.Russian Acad Sci, AM Obukhov Inst Atmospher Phys, Moscow, Russia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Slyunyaev, Nikolay N.,Mareev, Evgeny A.,Rakov, Vladimir A.,et al. Statistical Distributions of Lightning Peak Currents: Why Do They Appear to Be Lognormal?[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,2018,123(10):5070-5089. |
APA | Slyunyaev, Nikolay N.,Mareev, Evgeny A.,Rakov, Vladimir A.,&Golitsyn, Georgy S..(2018).Statistical Distributions of Lightning Peak Currents: Why Do They Appear to Be Lognormal?.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,123(10),5070-5089. |
MLA | Slyunyaev, Nikolay N.,et al."Statistical Distributions of Lightning Peak Currents: Why Do They Appear to Be Lognormal?".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 123.10(2018):5070-5089. |
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