Estimation of global lightning activity and observations of atmospheric electric field

Gołkowski, M.; Kubicki, Marek; Cohen, M. B.; Kułak, Andrzej; Inan, U. S.

doi:10.2478/s11600-010-0035-4

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“…As a result of research programs carried out in the last twenty years, a number of commercial lightning monitoring systems were developed to provide the discharges coordinates and maximum currents [ Richard and Auffray , 1985; Rodger et al , 2006; Mäkelä et al , 2008; Betz et al , 2009]. The studies in the ELF range have a similar direction [ Cummer and Inan , 2000; Hu et al , 2002; Huang et al , 1999; Cummer and Lyons , 2004; Kułak et al , 2010; Gołkowski et al , 2011; Nieckarz et al , 2011].…”

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Analysis of ELF electromagnetic field pulses recorded by the Hylaty station coinciding with terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes

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[1] Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) were registered the first time by the NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The physical mechanism of TGF generation is not fully known, but there is a consensus among researchers that the radiation is produced by bremsstrahlung of relativistic electrons in the thunderstorm regions of the atmosphere. Therefore, TGFs have been linked to positive-polarity intracloud lightning discharges, strong positive cloud-to-ground discharges or upward discharges from a thundercloud top. The currently operating Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is equipped with a Gamma-ray Burst Monitor that can detect terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. It opens up a new possibility to search for lightning discharges responsible for TGFs. Ground-based lightning monitoring systems in the ELF, LF and VLF ranges can be used for that purpose. The ELF systems are especially useful, since they provide a large monitoring range of several thousand kilometers for strong atmospheric discharges (charge moments above several tens of C km). In this paper we have described the data analysis method for ELF electromagnetic field pulses and applied it to study our first examples of TGFs registered by Fermi GBM coinciding with ELF pulses recorded by the Hylaty ELF station located in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland. Using our ELF electromagnetic wave propagation model we have evaluated charge moments for the two registered events to be 320 and 110 C km and provided upper limits for the remaining events.

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Analysis of ELF electromagnetic field pulses recorded by the Hylaty station coinciding with terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes

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“…Thunderstorm generator hypothesis indicates that charged particles are transferred from the bottom of thunder 4th National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (NCEECE 2015) clouds to the surface of the Earth and from the top of the thunder clouds to the ionosphere. Therefore, there is a close correspondence between the variations of the electrical potential gradient and the variation of thunderstorm and electrical showers clouds occurrence [5,6]. Based on such relationship, the atmosphere electronic field instruments could be placed over a large area and organized in a net to monitor lightning's activity.…”

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The First-Order Derivative of Atmospheric Electronic Field in an Optimal Time Window Improves the Accuracy of Lightning Warning

Luo¹,

Feng²,

Bian

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2015 4th National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering

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Abstract. Lightning is a major threat to people's daily activities. Therefore, to forecast its occurrence is very important to ensure the safety of life and property. Compared to a series of signals from instruments like the Doppler radar, the lightning locator and the meteorological satellite, the electromagnetic field signal is easy to be detected by the atmosphere electronic field instrument and strongly correlated with lightning. We analyze the defections of traditional warning methods through setting threshold on the atmospheric electronic field value and propose a new method which uses the first-order derivative to model the persistent and low-intensive fluctuation characteristic of atmospheric electronic field before the lightning. The experiment on real data proves that our method could improve the lightning warning accuracy.

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“…The amplitude of the ELF impulse field in the Earth‐ionosphere waveguide is associated with the vertical component of the (charge) dipole moment in a simple analytical way [ Kułak et al , ]. An ELF station with a single antenna enables measuring electrical lightning activity in the storm centers at a broad range of distances, starting at 0.15 Mm [ Nieckarz et al , ; Gołkowski et al , ].…”

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Application of the Schumann resonance spectral decomposition in characterizing the main African thunderstorm center

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In this paper we present a new method for quantifying the main tropical thunderstorm regions based on extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic wave measurements from a single station-the Hylaty ELF station in Central Europe. Our approach is based on Schumann resonance (SR) measurements, which we apply as an example to thunderstorms in Africa. By solving the inverse problem, using the SR power spectrum templates derived analytically, we calculate distances to the most powerful thunderstorm centers and present simplified 1-D thunderstorm lightning activity "maps" in absolute units C 2 m 2 /s. We briefly describe our method of SR power spectrum analysis and present how this method is used with real observational data. We obtained the monthly lightning activity maps of the African storm centers with a spatial resolution of 1 • and temporal resolution of 10 min for January and August 2011. This allowed us to study the varying location and intensities of the African storm centers in different seasons of the year. A cross check of the obtained lightning activity maps with Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite data recorded by the Lightning Imaging Sensor and the derived correlation coefficients between SR and optical data were used to validate the proposed method. We note that modeling a maximum possible number of resonance modes in the SR power spectra (in our case, seven resonances) is essential in application of the proposed approach.

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Estimation of global lightning activity and observations of atmospheric electric field

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

Analysis of ELF electromagnetic field pulses recorded by the Hylaty station coinciding with terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes

Analysis of ELF electromagnetic field pulses recorded by the Hylaty station coinciding with terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes

The First-Order Derivative of Atmospheric Electronic Field in an Optimal Time Window Improves the Accuracy of Lightning Warning

Application of the Schumann resonance spectral decomposition in characterizing the main African thunderstorm center

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