Wang Jingxuan, Zhang Yang, Chen Zefang, et al. Relationship between current characteristics of rocket-triggered lightning during different discharge stages. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2020, 31(2): 224-235. DOI:  10.11898/1001-7313.20200209.
Citation: Wang Jingxuan, Zhang Yang, Chen Zefang, et al. Relationship between current characteristics of rocket-triggered lightning during different discharge stages. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2020, 31(2): 224-235. DOI:  10.11898/1001-7313.20200209.

Relationship Between Current Characteristics of Rocket-triggered Lightning During Different Discharge Stages

DOI: 10.11898/1001-7313.20200209
  • Received Date: 2019-10-08
  • Rev Recd Date: 2019-12-18
  • Publish Date: 2020-03-31
  • The research on rocket-triggered lightning has made great progress since 1967. Various parts of rocket-triggered lightning are studied, but differences between initial stages of different types of rocket-triggered lightning and the relevance on each part of rocket-triggered lightning is still not well understood. Based on the rocket-triggered lightning current data obtained from Guangdong Comprehensive Observation Experiment on Lightning Discharge in Field Experiment Base on Lightning Sciences, China Meteorological Administration, two types of rocket-triggered lightning are classified considering the existence of return storke(RS)and the length of the initial continuous current(ICC). Differences of rocket-triggered lightning in different categories and the correlation between various parts are analyzed. Firstly, the difference between the rocket-triggered lightning with return strokes and the rocket-triggered lightning without return strokes is obvious. The precursor current pulse(PCP)and initial precursor current pulse(IPCP)average peak current, IPCP transfer charge, ICC average current and total transfer charge and duration of lightning with RSs are greater than those of lightning without RSs. Secondly, longer ICC duration corresponds to higher average peak current, first return charge and first RS peak current, PCP and IPCP peak current, PCP and IPCP average transfer charge of triggered lightning. It is also found that the average peak value of PCP and IPCP has the strongest correlation with ICC duration. The larger the average peak value of PCP and IPCP is, the longer the ICC duration is. It's also found that during the ascent of the rocket, the transfer charge of PCP tends to increase as the altitude of the rocket increases. There are some PCP pulse clusters that cannot produce a continuous upward leader (UPL), and it fails to produce an ICC. The average transfer charge of the PCP cluster is smaller than the average transfer charge of the initial precursor current pulse cluster (IPCP). According to the analysis of data, one of the conditions for the PCP cluster that fails to generate ICC to become IPCP is that the average transfer charge is greater than 25.91 μC.
  • Fig. 1  Channel-base current of triggered lightning and the amplified waveform

    (a)the whole current waveform, (b)a precursor current pulse for a single amplified display, (c)the initial precursor current pulse for the amplified display, (d)the initial continuous current for the amplified display, (e)a return stroke (RS) for the amplified display

    Fig. 2  Relationship between electric field intensity of ground electrostatic field and total time of PCP stage

    Fig. 3  ICC duration versus average peak current of RSs(a), peak current of first subsequent RS(b), average transfer charge of RSs(c) and transfer charge of first subsequent RS(d)

    Fig. 4  Relationship between the total transfer charge of ICC and the average peak current of RSs(a), the peak current of the first subsequent RS(b), the average charge transfer of RSs(c), and the charge transfer of the first subsequent RS(d)

    Fig. 5  Relationship between the average peak current of PCP and the transfer charge of the first subsequent RS(a), average peak current of RSs(b), and relationship between the average peak current of IPCP and transfer charge of the first subsequent RS(c), average peak current of RSs(d)

    Fig. 6  Relationships between the duration of ICC with the average peak current of PCP(a), the average charge transfer of PCP(b), the average peak current of IPCP(c) and the average charge transfer of IPCP(d)

    Fig. 7  Current waveform(a) and charge transfer distribution of current pulse(b) in initial stage of sample No.630

    Table  1  Basic characteristics of 14 rocket-triggered lightning bottom current data from Jun to Jul in 2019

    日期 闪电编号 触发方式 闪电极性 回击次数
    06-05 900 传统 2
    06-05 780 传统 12
    06-06 053 传统 3
    06-06 41 传统 5
    06-06 05 传统 1
    06-11 66 传统 8
    06-11 570 传统 7
    06-04 370 传统 0
    06-05 190 传统 0
    07-22 630 传统 0
    07-22 110 传统 0
    07-22 140 传统 0
    07-23 120 传统 0
    07-23 860 传统 0
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    Table  2  Overall current characteristics

    统计参量 几何平均值 最大值 最小值
    PCP峰值电流/A 10.831 68.374 4.774
    PCP转移电荷量/μC 11.029 82.257 0.074
    PCP半峰宽/μs 0.649 0.773 0.528
    PCP上升沿时间(10%~90%)/μs 0.487 3.000 0.100
    IPCP峰值电流/A 17.179 70.085 5.718
    IPCP转移电荷量/μC 37.479 87.367 5.303
    IPCP半峰宽/μs 1.036 1.467 0.656
    IPCP上升沿时间(10%~90%)/μs 0.733 2.600 0.100
    ICC平均电流/A 36.147 161.258 2.349
    ICC总体转移电荷量/C 3.667 60.074 0.003
    ICC持续时间/ms 101.437 561.916 1.163
    RS峰值电流/kA 12.292 36.449 3.341
    RS转移电荷量/C 0.796 5.318 0.163
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    Table  3  Parameters of PCP, IPCP and ICC duration for with or without triggered lightning

    统计参量 有回击(几何平均) 无回击(几何平均)
    PCP平均峰值电流/A 15.59 9.05
    PCP总体转移电荷量/μC 1127.08 1649.02
    IPCP平均峰值电流/A 23.12 12.13
    IPCP总体转移电荷量/μC 381.96 262.59
    ICC平均电流/A 89.06 12.62
    ICC总体转移电荷量/C 25.70 0.38
    ICC持续时间/ms 288.61 29.95
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    Table  4  PCP and IPCP parameters corresponding to triggered lightning with initial long, short, very short continuous current

    统计参量 初始长连续电流 初始短连续电流 初始极短连续电流
    PCP平均峰值电流/A 22.07 12.94 8.45
    PCP平均转移电荷量/μC 22.87 18.47 12.47
    PCP总体转移电荷量/μC 1109.65 1734.82 1712.78
    IPCP平均峰值电流/A 27.52 16.79 11.17
    IPCP平均转移电荷量/μC 49.02 40.50 33.55
    IPCP总体转移电荷量/μC 446.81 128.07 285.76
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