STROKE- AND SPACE-RESOLVED SLIT SPECTRA OF LIGHTNING

Abstract

Twenty-four stroke-resolved slit spectra of lightning taken in 1966 are presented, one of which is also the first space-resolved slit spectrum of a return stroke. These split spectra unambiguously show that the lightning return-stroke channel is a strong continuum source and that the continuum observed in the slitless spectra in 1965 is real and not the result of line radiation scattered from natural backgrounds such as clouds, haze, or rain. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 02, 1968
Accession Number
AD0672916

Entities

People

  • T. Robert Connor

Organizations

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Brightness
  • Calibration
  • Data Reduction
  • Detectors
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Images
  • Intensity
  • Lightning
  • Radiation
  • Rain
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • Spectrographs
  • Visible Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Space