Triggered lightning strokes at very close range

• 15 September 1967
• journal article
• Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Journal of Geophysical Research
• Vol. 72  (18) , 4761-4764
• https://doi.org/10.1029/jz072i018p04761

Abstract

Keywords

• AND SO TO THE SEA. THE LENGTH OF WIRE BELOW THE ROCKET FORMED A GROUNDED NEARLY VERTICAL ANTENNA AIMED FROM THE VESSEL TOWARD THE CLOUD. IN THE TYPICAL CASE
• A LIGHTNING DISCHARGE JUMPED BE- TWEEN THE ROCKET AT A HEIGHT OF ABOUT 100 METERS ABOVE THE SEA AND THE CLOUD AT A HEIGHT OF 1000 METERS OR MORE AND THEN FOLLOWED THE WIRE DOWN TO THE VESSEL.
• THE COIL WAS GROUNDED TO THE VESSEL