Reconstruction of the global lightning distribution from ELF electromagnetic background signals |
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| Authors: | AV Shvets M Hayakawa M Sekiguchi Y Ando |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Electrical Engineering Belgrade, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 73, 11120 Belgrade, Serbia;2. University of the Federal Armed Forces, EIT 7, Munich, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The global lightning distribution has been obtained for the first time as the result of an inverse problem for the natural extremely low-frequency (ELF) electromagnetic background signals measured simultaneously at three stations: Lekhta (Karelia, Russia), Moshiri (Hokkaido, Japan), and West Greenwich (Rhode Island, USA). We employed a two-step technique consisting of: (1) inversion of ELF field spectra to a source distance distribution (distance profile) for each station of the network and (2) treating the obtained distance profiles as projections in the tomographic method. The structure of the source distance profiles reconstructed from experimental field spectra, varies during a day in a manner specific for each station, which can be explained generally by the temporal distribution of the sources in the tropical continental areas, so-called world thunderstorm centres (WTCs). The comparison of the obtained source distributions with the satellite data on lightning collected by Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) shows satisfactory agreement, which proves that our newly developed inversion technique is a suitable method for mapping global lightning. |
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