Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
Jun 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jgra..11500e31f&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 115, Issue 52, CiteID A00E31
Computer Science
Sound
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Atmospheric Processes: Atmospheric Electricity, Atmospheric Processes: Acoustic-Gravity Waves, Atmospheric Processes: Lightning, Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Atmosphere Interactions (0335)
Scientific paper
Research about thunder was mainly performed 20-30 years ago but has been renewed in recent years due to new interest about infrasound in the framework of the verification of the compliance of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. During the Eurosprite 2005 campaign, an infrasound miniarray has been set up in France to measure the characteristics of infrasound from lightning and sprites when these kinds of sources were close to the sensors (that is, for lightning distances lower than 100 km and sprite distances lower than 300 km). For two large thunderstorms which passed over the station, detection conditions of infrasound from lightning are detailed, and some characteristics are thoroughly described (e.g., amplitude variation with distance and spectrum of an individual event in the frequency range from 0.01 to 10 Hz). The locations of infrasound sources are determined using a 3-D inversion. Infrasound signals from sprites have also been detected, and the 3-D inversion method used for lightning infrasound has been adapted to locate the sources of infrasound from sprites. Four different sprite infrasound events are analyzed in this way. The infrasound source corresponds well to the sprite spatial characteristics deduced from camera observations. Questions about generation mechanisms of infrasound from lightning and sprites still remain. These new results should help us to understand the sound generation processes.
Blanc Elisabeth
Farges Thomas
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