Magnetotelluric Fields From a Lightning Stroke

[lightning stroke image] [46 KB]

These data were collected in Central California. Good thunderstorm activity in the tropics generates spherics such as this. Thunderstorm activity too close to the measurement site, gives distorted data and the the risk of being struck.

[plots of magnetotelluric field data] [8 KB]

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Magnetotelluric Fields From a Lightning Stroke / 6 October 1996 / unsworth@geophys.washington.edu