Research Article

Characteristic Features of Electric Fields Radiated by Cloud Flashes in Himalayan Region

Table 5

A comparative presentation of the features of cloud flashes from various geographical locations.

Research carried out byAverage interpulse intervalDuration of activity for the first stageDuration of cloud flash

Gomes and Cooray [13]147 μs
Sharma et al. [29]35.7 μs10 ms100 ms–400 ms
Weidman and Krider [11]780 μs for negative
130 μs for positive
Present study309.79 μs for positive
211.42 μs for negative
11.23 ms80 ms–469.5 ms