EVALUATION OF GROUND STROKE DENSITY DISTRIBUTION AND LIGHTNING DETECTION EFFICIENCY IN BEIJING-TIANJIN-HEBEI AREA

It is possible to understand the lightning activities in a specific region and compare test resultsof different apparatus only when a reliable evaluation of detection efficiency distribution pertainingto a particular lightning location system(LLS)is available.Based on the data in 1992.an approximate evaluation of detection efficiency spatial distribu-tion for single-station lightning location system(M-LDARS)and LLP three-station lightning loca-tion system in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area is presented in the paper,showing that the average detec-tion efficiencies are smaller than 48% and 46% respectively.In addition,the article offers an eval-uation of spatial distribution of ground stroke density(D)and positive stroke percentage,indicat-ing that six high stroke density zones exist along the southeastern sides of the Taihang and Yan-shan Mountains.The stroke density of mountainous region is higher than that of the plain region,in contrast to the case of positive stroke percentage.Also,it is shown that within a radius of 250km,the average of Dis 1.2(kma)while the average positive stroke percentage is 10.9%.Finally,the paper proposes a possible test method of accurately evaluating the spatial distributionof detection efficiency(A).