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Groups Of Narrow Bipolar Events Within Thunderstorms, Sampath Bandara, Thomas Marshall, Sumedhe Karunarathne, Maribeth Stolzenburg
Groups Of Narrow Bipolar Events Within Thunderstorms, Sampath Bandara, Thomas Marshall, Sumedhe Karunarathne, Maribeth Stolzenburg
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This investigation is focused on groups of Narrow Bipolar Events (NBEs), defined as NBEs that occurred within 10 km horizontally and ±660 ms of a located, large-amplitude NBE from a dataset of positive NBEs that occurred in Mississippi thunderstorms. In two months only 15 groups were found, with a total of 31 positive and 4 negative NBEs. Each group had 2 to 5 NBEs; four groups had both positive and negative polarity NBEs. About half of the NBEs had typical values for range-normalized fast antenna (FA) electric field change magnitudes (4–15 V/m) and typical VHF powers (1000–45,000 W), but 17 …