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On Practical Implementation of Electromagnetic Models of Lightning Return-Strokes

In electromagnetic models, the return-stroke channel is represented as an antenna excited at its base by either a voltage or a current source. To adjust the speed of the current pulse propagating in the channel to available optical observations, different ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Analysis of lightning electromagnetic field propagation in mountainous terrain and its effects on ToA-based lightning location systems

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Zhaoyang Wang, Keyhan Sheshyekani, Dongshuai Li, Qilin Zhang

In this paper, we analyze the propagation effects on lightning-radiated electromagnetic fields over mountainous terrain by using a three-dimensional (3-D) finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. We also discuss the time delay error in the time-of-arri ...

Amer Geophysical Union2016

Influence of ground wire on the initiation of upward leader from 110 to 1000kV AC phase line

Xi Wang, Rong Zeng

The problem of upward leader inception from transmission lines has not been thoroughly discussed, largely because of the difficulty to obtain experimental data under natural circumstances. Previous studies have primarily examined reduced-scale experiments ...

Elsevier2016

Fast Initial Continuous Current Pulses vs Return Stroke Pulses in Tower-initiated Lightning

Mario Paolone, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Stefan Metz, Davide Pavanello

We present a study focused on pulses superimposed on the initial continuous current of upward negative discharges. The study is based on experimental data consisting of correlated lightning current waveforms recorded at the instrumented Santis Tower in Swi ...

Amer Geophysical Union2016

Lightning Location Systems and Interstroke Intervals: Effects of Imperfect Detection Efficiency

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Mirjana Stojilovic

Lightning location systems (LLSs) are often used to obtain parameters of lightning flashes. However, the imperfect detection efficiency (DE) of these systems affects the accuracy of the results. In this paper, we focus on the effects of the imperfect DE on ...

Ieee2016

Snow hydrology signatures for model identification within a limits-of-acceptability approach

Bettina Schaefli

Discharge simulation from snow-dominated catchments seems to be an easy task. Any spatially explicit precipitation-runoff model coupled to a temperature-index snow model generally yields simulations that mimic well the observed daily discharges. The robust ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Implementation and Performance Analysis of the Lightning Potential Index as a Forecasting Tool

Martina Lagasio

Severe weather events are responsible for hundreds of fatalities and millions of euros of damage every year in the Mediterranean basin. Lightning activity is a characteristic phenomenon of severe weather and often accompanies torrential rainfall, which und ...

Ieee2016

A Methodology to Reduce the Computational Effort in the Evaluation of the Lightning Performance of Distribution Networks

The estimation of the lightning performance of a power distribution network is of great importance to design its protection system against lightning. An accurate evaluation of the number of lightning events that can create dangerous overvoltages requires a ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Locating transient disturbance sources and modelling their interaction with transmission lines

Gaspard Lugrin

This thesis deals with the application of electromagnetic time reversal to locating transient disturbance sources and the use of the asymptotic theory for the modelling of their interaction with transmission lines. We demonstrate that the time-of-arrival, ...

EPFL2016

Local tributary widening for river rehabilitation

Anton Schleiss, Koen Blanckaert, Marcelo Leite Ribeiro

The hydro-morpho-sedimentary processes in confluence hydrodynamic zones (CHZ) subject to a local widening of the tributary were investigated in a series of laboratory experiments that were representative of the 20 major confluences of the Upper Rhone River ...

John Wiley and Sons2016

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