RECENT PROGRESS IN LIGHTNING STUDIES AT THE PIC DU MIDI OBSERVATORY
An experimental site devoted to the study of direct lightning impacts to lightning rods has been selected at the top of the Pic du Midi in the French Pyr閚閑s.This site offers the exceptional opportunity of investigating lightning strokes to a complex structure of limited extension, intermediate between a large building at moderate altitude and a high-elevated structure such like the well-known instrumented telecommunication towers (Gaisberg, Peissenberg, S鋘tis or CN Tower).At the Pic du Midi, the famous astronomical Observatory offers a unique scientific environment for lightning observations.Among various experiments, we will devote this paper to that installed at the top of the so-called DIMM platform.Several scientific sensors are here installed, such like measurements of lightning current, electric field, highspeed video and related recordings.This will enable to characterize both lightning attachment to an instrumented rod and lightning detection network efficiency at high altitude (about 2,900 m).
Gérard Berger Guy Lafon Gérard Serrie Charly Sigogne
Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas,CNRS,Paris University,Gif sur Yvette,France ABB France,Bagnères de Bigorre,France
国际会议
成都
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2011-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）