Estimation of Thundercloud Direction by Horizontal Electric Field Meters

• Tantisattayakul Thanapol

  Toyama University

• Kitamura Iwao

  Toyama University

• Murai Tadakuni

  Toyama University

• Masugata Katsumi

  Toyama University

• Kami Koichiro

  Hokuriku Electric Power Co.

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 雷雲の位置推定のための水平方向電界計の開発
• ライウン ノ イチ スイテイ ノ タメ ノ スイヘイ ホウコウ デンカイケイ ノ カイハツ

Abstract

The horizontal electric field (E_r) contains useful information for estimating position of thundercloud. Unfortunately, it is difficult to detect horizontal electric field (E_r) due to electric field component on the earth surface is almost a vertical component. <br>We propose a new idea for horizontal electric field (E_r) detection. We developed two types of horizontal electric field meter (HEFM), i. e., a fixed electrode-type and a rotating electrode-type, and evaluated their performance experimentally and found that they have sufficient sensitivity to E_r to estimate the direction of thundercloud. In this paper, we present the result of performance evaluation and also present an electric field data measured by HEFMs as examples.

Journal

• IEEJ Transactions on Power and Energy

  IEEJ Transactions on Power and Energy 124 (1), 121-126, 2004

  The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan

Keywords

• lightning observation
• electric field meter

Details

• CRID: 1390001204603260672
• NII Article ID: 10011820997
• NII Book ID: AN10136334
• DOI: 10.1541/ieejpes.124.121
• ISSN: 13488147
• ISSN: 03854213
• NDL BIB ID: 6816636
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I6816636
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ieejpes/124/1/124_1_121/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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