Bipolar lightning flashes with multiple ground terminations including tall towers

Three large-scale (tens of kilometers in horizontal extent) multiple-stroke cloud-to-ground (CG) flashes were examined in detail. The flashes occurred in the same summer thunderstorm in Florida and were bipolar in that some of the strokes (leader/retu

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2025-09-29
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https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175767470.04888304/v3
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Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena
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Bipolar lightning flashes with multiple ground terminations including tall towers

Yanan Zhu, Vladimir A. Rakov, Si Chen, Ziqin Ding
Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena
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Bipolar lightning flashes with multiple ground terminations including tall towers

Yanan Zhu, Vladimir A. Rakov, Si Chen, Ziqin Ding
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Abstract

Three large-scale (tens of kilometers in horizontal extent) multiple-stroke cloud-to-ground (CG) flashes were examined in detail. The flashes occurred in the same summer thunderstorm in Florida and were bipolar in that some of the strokes (leader/retu

University of Florida (US), Earth Networks (United States) (US)
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Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena
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