{"title":"First lightning current measurements to the Sentech tower, South Africa","authors":"J. R. Smit, Hugh G. P. Hunt, C. Schumann","doi":"10.1109/ICLPandSIPDA54065.2021.9627420","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The current measurements from the Sentech tower for the 2020–2021 rain season are presented. The tower is a cylindrical concrete radio broadcast tower, situated on the highveld plateau in Johannesburg, South Africa. The season produced 43 distinguishable lightning current measurements, 186 return strokes, 30 ICC fast pulses and 7 ICCOnly events. The return stroke multiplicity for the season is 6.41. The return stroke median current is 7.51 kA while the ICC pulses had a median peak of 3.75 kA. The median charge transfer for a lightning event with return strokes is 41.36C, while it is 35.51C for ICCP events and 26.08C for ICCOnly events.","PeriodicalId":70714,"journal":{"name":"中国防雷","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"中国防雷","FirstCategoryId":"1089","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICLPandSIPDA54065.2021.9627420","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The current measurements from the Sentech tower for the 2020–2021 rain season are presented. The tower is a cylindrical concrete radio broadcast tower, situated on the highveld plateau in Johannesburg, South Africa. The season produced 43 distinguishable lightning current measurements, 186 return strokes, 30 ICC fast pulses and 7 ICCOnly events. The return stroke multiplicity for the season is 6.41. The return stroke median current is 7.51 kA while the ICC pulses had a median peak of 3.75 kA. The median charge transfer for a lightning event with return strokes is 41.36C, while it is 35.51C for ICCP events and 26.08C for ICCOnly events.