Statistics on Radiation Field Waveforms Associated with Multiple Intracloud Lightning Discharges

• Lee, Bok-Hee (The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University, 253, Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-ku, Inchon, 402-751, Korea.) ;
• Lee, Dong-Moon (The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University, 253, Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-ku, Inchon, 402-751, Korea.) ;
• Ahn, Chang-Hwan (The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University, 253, Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-ku, Inchon, 402-751, Korea.) ;
• Kim, Young-Bong (The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University, 253, Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-ku, Inchon, 402-751, Korea.)
• Published : 2001.03.01

Abstract

This paper presents the detailed statistics on radiation field signatures associated with multiple-intracloud lightning discharges. A transient signal recording system was used to measure the electric and magnetic fields produced by lightning flashes. The measurements were made in th summers of 1995 through 1999, and the location of the observation station was in Inchon on the coast of the Yellow Sea in Korea(37$^{\circ}$25'N, 126$^{\circ}$ 39'E). Most of lightning flashes typically contains between two and five strokes. The individual intracloud stork radiation fields were the bipolar pulse. On the average, the ratio of the peak of the second stroke to the first stroke peak was 75.1$\pm$40.1% for the negative, and a fraction of the subsequent stroke peaks were higher than the first stroke peak. The greater the number of the subsequent stroke order, less time separations between strokes were produced. The mean of the depth of the dip was 81.2$\pm$27.9% for the positive polarity and 75.9$\pm$24.4% for the negative. The depth of the dip increased for the positive bipolar pulses and decreased for the negative as the number of the stroke order increased.