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Säntis lightning research facility: a summary of the first ten years and future outlook

Rachidi, Farhad  
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Rubinstein, Marcos
2022
e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik

The Säntis Tower was instrumented in May 2010 to measure currents of lightning discharges striking the structure. Since then, the system has been recurrently updated and expanded. Presently, data associated with lightning striking the tower are collected at six different sites. The facility is equipped with a current measurement system, three electric field stations, an electrostatic field mill, two x‑ray sensors, a high-speed camera, and four slow cameras. This paper presents the latest measurement configuration at the facility. Other temporarily loaned instruments are also briefly described. Furthermore, examples of some of the data that have been gathered and analyzed are given, and an outlook as well as future plans for the facility are presented.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s00502-022-01031-2
Author(s)
Rachidi, Farhad  
Rubinstein, Marcos
Date Issued

2022

Publisher

Springer

Published in
e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
Subjects

Lightning

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Lightning measurements

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Lightning protection

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Lightning currents

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Electromagnetic fields

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SCI-STI-FR  
FunderGrant Number

FNS

200020_175594

H2020

737033-LLR

Available on Infoscience
April 22, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/187234
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