Ground wave of an idealized lightning return stroke.

We model a lightning return stroke by a vertical traveling wave of current with a complex propagation constant. The Sommerfeld-integral analysis is similar to that of a vertical electric dipole over a lossy earth except that the source is distributed in height. When the integration over the source c...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Transactions on antennas and propagation 48, 9 (2000).
Main Author:	Wait, J.R
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Sommerfeld attenuation function. Sommerfeld-integral analysis. Complex propagation constant. Ground wave. Ground-based observer. Height distributed source. Height-gain function. Idealized lightning return stroke. Integration. Lossy earth. Remote sensing. Source current. Source dipole moment. Vertical electric dipole. Vertical traveling wave current.