Study on the Conductivity Properties of Lightning Channel by Spectroscopy
WANG Xue-juan1, YUAN Ping1*, CEN Jian-yong1, WANG Jie2, ZHANG Ting-long3
1. Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Physics & Functional Materials of Gansu Province, College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China 2. Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Environment Optics and Technology, Hefei 230031, China 3. Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Abstract：Combining the spectra of cloud-to-ground lightning return obtained by a slit-less spectrograph with the transport theory of air plasma, the electrical conductivity in one discharge channel was calculated with different methods. The results show that the conductivity of the lightning channel core is of the order of 104 S·m-1; the conductivity goes down with the increase in the channel height in the same channel; the contributions of the collisions between electron and first or second degree ionized atoms, and electron-electron as well as ion-ion collisions to the electrical conductivity of the lightning channel core can not be neglected; the collision integrals method is more reasonable for calculating the conductivity of the lightning channel core. Based on the conductivity, the discharge current was estimated and compared with the peak current of every return stroke, and the results are in the reasonable range, further, the correlation between the channel temperature and the discharge characteristics is discussed, which provides a practical way for this aspect.
Key words：Lightning discharge channel;Electrical conductivity;Discharge current;Peak value of current;Action integral
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