Remote Measurement of the Lightning Impulse Charge Moment Change Using the Fast Electric Field Antenna

Autor: Wenhao Hou, Jiaying Gu, Yaojun Wang, Bingzhe Dai, Xun Cui, Hongsheng Wang, Xue Jiao, Jie Li, Qilin Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Iss 3, p 724 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs14030724
Popis: The impulse charge moment change (iCMC) is an important electrical property of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning. In this paper, a new method of measuring the iCMC at distances of several hundred kilometers is proposed. The method is based on the vertical electric field below 1 kHz measured by the widely used fast electric field antenna with low frequency/very low frequency (LF/VLF) band. The impulse response of Earth-ionosphere waveguide (EIWG) is modeled using a finite difference time domain (FDTD) method considering an anisotropic ionosphere. By comparing the observed waveform with the simulated impulse response, the lightning discharge is classified into the impulsive discharge and the non-impulsive discharge. For the impulsive discharge, its iCMC is obtained directly by comparing the measured ELF waveform to the modeled impulse response at the same distance. For the non-impulsive discharge, its current moment waveform is assumed to be a sum of two Heidler’s functions, and the genetic algorithm is used to search the unknown parameters in the functions. The good agreement between the measured ELF waveform and the simulated waveform implies that the extracted current moments are reasonable. This method can be used to continuously monitor the lightning iCMC in a given time and space.
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