Positive and negative discharges: electric and magnetic field variation Presenter: Hripsime Mkrtchyan Supervisor: Ashot Chilingarian
Instrumentation, their locations Instrumentation, their locations Joint measurements Joint measurements Negative and positive discharges, their differences Negative and positive discharges, their differences Magnetic field during discharges Magnetic field during discharges Overview
Vantage Pro2 Boltek EFM-100 Lightning Detector (Boltek) Outside 3 &1 cm plastic scintillator detectors Step changes in Field magnitude indicate lightning Lemi-417
Locations of Boltek EFM-100 electric field mills
The Top Of Mount Aragats Yeravan The Lake of Aragats Geovision gv- bx1500 All Sky Cam 180° Mount Ararat The Geographical locations of The Aragats Cameras The count of the cameras: 3 Framerate: Up to 30fps The installed height: 3200m. LINKSYS LCAD03VLNOD 1080p 3MP
Joint measurements on May 23
More then 486 discharge events were registered during this day from which 321 were positive and 165 negative discharges.
Positive and Negative discharges
Some Interesting Pictures At Byurakan During
positive once 0.05 to 0.55 second, and for negative ones Histogram of the time from the start of the electric-field sharp decrease (enhancement ) till its minimum (maximum) positive once 0.05 to 0.55 second, and for negative ones
Histogram of the Amplitude of the electric-field sharp changes: a) for positive and b) for negative
For Electric field (E):
Slope and Constant distribution histograms for 139 negative discharges.
Correlation between slope and constant of power fit function for selected 25 events.
Correlation between discharge amplitude and Speed of decay (for first 60 data) with R = 0.87
Magnetic field
Magnetic field’s jumps
By Aragats measurements Date/TimeB_xB_yB_z By components Electric field 13:42: :41: :00: :20: :45: :17: :35: :41: :13: :05: :46: :45: :46: :29: :22: :05: :11: :37: type Date/TimeB_xB_yB_z By components Electric field 13:42: :41: :00: :20: :45: :17: :35: :41: :13: :05: :46: :45: :46: :29: :22: :05: :11: :37:
By Nor Amberd measurements Date/TimeB_xB_yB_z By components Electric field type 17:11: :20: :11: (cg) 17:05: :14: (cg) 16:49: :25: (ic) 16:54: :17: :17: :30: :35: :33: :29: :46: :22: :37: Date/TimeB_xB_yB_z By components Electric field type 17:11: :20: :11: (cg) 17:05: :14: (cg) 16:49: :25: (ic) 16:54: :17: :17: :30: :35: :33: :29: :46: :22: :37:
1.73*0.0001
Aim of my work 1.Lower positive charge region (LPCR) and its initiation. 2.Nature of electric discharges during Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements (TGEs) 3.Data comparison between Boltek stations and WWLLN 4.Meteorological parameters behavior during TGEs 5.Thunderclouds investigation using RADAR from Ashtarak
Summary Negative discharges are longer then positive one. Positives’ amplitudes are larger. Negative discharge generate smaller changes in magnetic field Positive lightning generate strong magnetic field variation then negative one
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