The NASA Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are currently operating a large network of electric field mills to detect lightning and electrified clouds that might present hazards to ground operations, launches, and landings. Here we summarize recent results of least squares analyses of multistation measurements of field changes that were produced by cloud-to-ground (Q model) and intracloud (P model) lightning. The values of the optimum parameters of 113 lightning events that occurred in one small storm on July 11, 1978, and a portion of a large storm on July 6, 1978, are tabulated and graphed. We note that, in both storms, there is considerable symmetry in the direction of P vectors around the Q region and that this pattern is consistent with the classic double-dipole model of thundercloud charges. We note also that the vertical separation of the Q and P regions depends on the storm intensity. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989 |