Negative first stroke leader characteristics in cloud-to-ground lightning over land and ocean

We examine downward leader characteristics for negative first return strokes, along with estimated first stroke peak currents, for lightning occurring over land and ocean reported by the U. S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN). For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, we report in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nag, Amitabh, Cummins, Kenneth L.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Hydrol & Atmospher Sci
Language:en
Published: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623001
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/623001