1. Lightning occurrence data observed with lightning location systems of electric power companies in Japan: 2009-2013.
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Shindo, Takatoshi, Motoyama, Hideki, Miki, Toru, Saito, Mikihisa, Matsueda, Akiyori, Honma, Noriyasu, Hida, Tomohito, Shinjo, Kazuo, Hayashi, Kiyotaka, Awazu, Hayato, Makabe, Katsuhisa, Fujikawa, Masato, Kurihara, Satoshi, and Sato, Masashi
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ELECTRIC power , *LIGHTNING , *ELECTRIC lines , *POWER transmission , *ELECTRIC industries - Abstract
Nine electric power companies in Japan have been collecting lightning data with lightning location systems. Five years of the lightning data (2009-2013) are summarized and analyzed in this paper. The recent annual number of lightning flashes of which the current is more than 10 kA in Japan is around 1 million. The variations of lightning occurrence characteristics by areas, seasons, and so on, are clarified. Meteorological conditions that may affect lightning occurrence are also discussed. Furthermore, we show that there is a clear correlation between the number of lightning strikes and the outage rate of transmission lines. © 2016 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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