This report presents an overview of the NASA Thunderstorm Overflight Program (TOP)/Optical Lightning Experiment (OLDE) being conducted by the Marshall Space Flight Center and university researchers in atmospheric electricity. Discussed in this report are the various instruments flown on the NASA U-2 aircraft, as well as the ground instrumentation used in 1983 to collect optical and electronic signatures from the lightning events. Samples of some of the photographic and electronic signatures are presented. Approximately 4132 electronic data samples of optical pulses were collected and are being analyzed by the NASA and unversity researchers. A number of research reports are being prepared for future publication. These reports will provide more detailed data analysis and results from the 1983 spring and summer program.


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    Title :

    Nasa Thunderstorm Overflight Program: Atmospheric Electricity Research. An Overview Report on the Optical Lightning Detection Experiment for Spring and Summer 1983


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1984


    Size :

    57 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English