Some observations of bipolar flashes during summer thunderstorms near Warsaw

• Autorzy: Barański P. , Bodzak P.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Lightning discharges monitored by the SAFIR network system in Poland have been additionally identified over the 100×100 km area near Warsaw by single-point independent recordings of electric field and Maxwell current rapid changes. The data collected in summer thunderstorm days of 2002 showed some untypical properties of the lightning discharges which are rarely observed. Especially remarkable was a number of ground multistroke flashes with the return strokes (RS) which transported to the earth charges of opposite signs. Bipolar flashes (BF) of this kind were mostly involved in the events in which the nearby intracloud (ic) and cloud-to -ground (c-g) discharges were very closely associated in time. Events of such a close collocation of two different types of lightning discharges, previously called the complex lightning discharge events (CLDE), were quite often observed during summer thunderstorms in Poland. The events of this kind, i.e. 8 flashes, identified by the SAFIR detection system as BF’s present the multiple stroke flashes of the mean horizontal separation distance between striking points of particular RS equal to (2.8 š 2.1) km and of the mean time interval between strokes of (46.8 š 74.4) ms. The time separation between the observed BF and the adjacent ic flashes was from 0.1 to 335 ms, and horizontal separation distance between them ranged from 1.8 to 14.5 km. The mul-tiplicity of the recorded BF’s ranged from 2 to 4 strokes. Four of these BF’s followed the ic discharge, but the other three preceded the ic and one was alone with no close ic.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

bipolar flash; complex lightning discharge; lightning initiation; thundercloud

• Wydawca: Instytut Geofizyki PAN ; Springer
• Czasopismo: Acta Geophysica
• Rocznik: 2006
• Tom: Vol. 54, no. 1
• Strony: 71--89

Twórcy

autor

Barański P.

autor

Bodzak P.

• Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences 01-452 Warszawa, ul. Księcia Janusza 64, Poland,

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