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Hubert, P., Laroche, P., Eybert-Berard, A. and Barret, L. (1984). Triggered Lightning in New Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research 89: doi: 10.1029/JD089iD02p02511. issn: 0148-0227. |
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Triggered lightning experiments with rockets pulling a grounded wire were performed at Langmuir Laboratory in 1981. Out of 56 firings, 35 events were triggered among which 29 had a peak current intensity above 2 kA and 27 were hybrid flashes. The highest current peak is 40 kA¿10%. The median value of the transported charge is 35 C, including a contribution fo 28 C from the continuous component. The largest charge is in a flash carrying a mixture of +235 and -240 C¿10%. The median number of pulses is 15 above 3 kA, and 2 above 10 kA. Comparison with natural lightning reveals a large excess of small current pulses in the triggered case, but there is a great similarity in shape, size, and number between the subsequent strokes of natural flashes and the largest among the pulses in the triggered events. |
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