Characteristics of narrow bipolar pulses observed in Malaysia

被引：43

作者：

Ahmad, Noor Azlinda ^{[1
]}

Fernando, M. ^{[1
]}

Baharudin, Z. A. ^{[1
]}

Cooray, V. ^{[1
]}

Ahmad, H. ^{[2
]}

Malek, Z. Abdul ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Uppsala Univ, Dept Engn Sci, Div Elect, Angstrom Lab, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden

[2] Univ Teknol Malaysia, Inst High Voltage & High Current, Johor Baharu 81310, Malaysia

来源：

JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS | 2010年 / 72卷 / 5-6期

基金：

瑞典研究理事会;

关键词：

Narrow bipolar pulses; Lightning; Cloud discharges; Electric field; ELECTRIC-FIELD PULSES; LIGHTNING DISCHARGES; RADIATION-FIELDS; CLOUD FLASHES; SRI-LANKA; EVENTS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jastp.2010.02.006

中图分类号：

P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];

学科分类号：

0708 ; 070902 ;

摘要：

Narrow bipolar pulses (NBPs) are considered as isolated intracloud events with higher peak amplitude and strong high frequency emission compared to the first return strokes and other intracloud discharges. From 182 NBPs recorded in Malaysia in the tropic, 75 were narrow negative bipolar pulses (NNBPs) while 107 were narrow positive bipolar pulses (NPBPs). The mean duration of NNBPs was 24.6 +/- 17.1 mu s, while 30.2 +/- 12.3 mu s was observed for NPBPs. The mean full-width at half-maximum (FVVHM) was 2.2 +/- 0.7 and 2.4 +/- 1.4 mu s for NNBPs and NPBPs, respectively. The mean peak amplitude of NPBPs normalized to 100 km was 22.7 V/m, a factor of 1.3 higher than that of NNBPs which is 17.6 V/m. In contrast to the previous studies, it was observed that the electric field change was characterized by a bipolar pulse with a significant amount of fine structures separated by a few tens of nanoseconds intervals, embedded on it. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：534 / 540

页数：7

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