The channel radius and energy of cloud-to-ground lightning discharge plasma with multiple return strokes
- Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Functional Materials of Gan Su Province, College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070 (China)
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Optics and Technology, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031 (China)
- Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000 (China)
Using the spectra of a cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flash with multiple return strokes and combining with the synchronous radiated electrical field information, the linear charge density, the channel radius, the energy per unit length, the thermal energy, and the energy of dissociation and ionization in discharge channel are calculated with the aid of an electrodynamic model of lightning. The conclusion that the initial radius of discharge channel is determined by the duration of the discharge current is confirmed. Moreover, the correlativity of several parameters has been analyzed first. The results indicate that the total intensity of spectra is positive correlated to the channel initial radius. The ionization and thermal energies have a linear relationship, and the dissociation energy is correlated positively to the ionization and thermal energies, the energy per unit length is in direct proportion to the square of initial radius in different strokes of one CG lightning.
- OSTI ID:
- 22251993
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 21, Issue 3; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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