Global lightning acquisition system installed

Martin Füllekrug, Steuert Constable, Graham Heinson, Mitsuteru Sato, Yukihiro Takahashi, Colin Price, Earle Williams

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Abstract

A global network of seven time‐synchronized, high‐precision magnetometers around the world is ready to triangulate individual lightning flashes on planet Earth to monitor the temporal and spatial evolution of global lightning activity.

This global network of magnetometers is able to detect the electromagnetic radiation of distant lightning flashes and makes possible remote sensing of the temporal evolution and spatial migration of global lightning activity [Füllekrug and Constable, 2000]. These results have led to international interest in a new measurement campaign with a large network of high‐precision magnetometers. The magnetic field changes are measured with ∼10‐14 Tesla accuracy (which corresponds to ∼10‐7% of the main geomagnetic field). The Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) provide time alignment of 0.00002 seconds between two measurement stations at antipodal distances (20×103, km), and the digital equipment makes possible continuous, high‐frequency recordings with 2000 samples per second.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)333-48
Number of pages16
JournalEos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Volume81
Issue number30
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2000

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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