LMA Observation of Upward Flashes at Santis Tower: Preliminary Results

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作者：
Mostajabi, Amirhossein [1 ]
Pineda, Nicolau [2 ]
Romero, David [3 ]
Azadifar, Mohammad [1 ,4 ]
Van der Velde, Oscar [3 ]
Montanya, Joan [3 ]
Rubinstein, Marcos [4 ]
Rachidi, Farhad [1 ]
机构：
[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol EPFL, Electromagnet Compatibil Lab, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[2] Meteorol Serv Catalonia, Barcelona 08029, Spain
[3] Tech Univ Catalonia, Lightning Res Grp, Terrassa 08222, Spain
[4] Univ Appl Sci Western Switzerland HES SO, CH-1400 Yverdon, Switzerland
来源：
2018 JOINT IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY AND 2018 IEEE ASIA-PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY (EMC/APEMC) | 2018年
基金：
瑞士国家科学基金会; 欧盟地平线“2020”;
关键词：
Lightning mapping array system; VHF lightning mapping; Lightning current measurement; VHF RADIO PICTURES; SYSTEM;
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中图分类号：
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号：
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要：
Lightning striking tall towers is mainly of the upward lightning type, which is characterized by the absence of a first return stroke and the presence of an initial continuous current (ICC) with or without superimposed pulses. The Santis Tower is 124 m tall and it is located on the top of the Santis Mountain (2502 m ASL) in the eastern Swiss Alps. The Tower location exhibited the highest lightning flash density in Switzerland during the period from 1999 to 2006. The Tower was instrumented in May 2010 for the measurement of lightning current parameters. In order to complement these data, a Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) was deployed around the Tower during the Summer 2017. The LMA system locates the sources of radio emissions in the very high frequency range (VHF, 60-66 MHz) in three dimensions by a time-of-arrival analysis. The LMA system allows detailed analysis of individual flashes, through the mapping of the lightning channels in the cloud with sufficient time resolution and spatial precision to locate the origin and propagation of each flash. With the help of the LMA, we intend to further investigate the initiation and propagation characteristics of upward lightning emerging from the Tower. From June 29 to August 15, 2017, 33 upward flashes initiated from the Santis tower were registered by the LMA network. These records are the first set of VHF total lightning mapping obtained in Switzerland. Preliminary results of the campaign are presented in this paper.
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