LIGHTNING ECHOES AND ATMOSPHERICS AS OBSERVED BY RADAR

Authors
BHATTACHARYA AB DATTA BK BHATTACHARYA R
Citation
Ab. Bhattacharya et al., LIGHTNING ECHOES AND ATMOSPHERICS AS OBSERVED BY RADAR, Indian journal of radio & space physics, 23(5), 1994, pp. 323-325
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Metereology & Atmospheric Sciences","Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Indian journal of radio & space physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
03678393
Volume
23
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
323 - 325
Database
ISI
SICI code
0367-8393(1994)23:5<323:LEAAAO>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
This paper deals with the characteristics of both the lightning echoes and sferics and the mechanisms to which they owe their origin. Result s obtained by using UHF band radar revealed that the length of the lig htning echoes is in a range of few kilometres to tens of kilometres an d the echo duration in most of the cases is greater than 200 m s. The duration of the sferic strokes is found to be less-than-or-equal-to 10 00 mus and the field is 1.5 x 10(-4) V/m when normalized to a range of one mile for a band width of 1 kHz.