Electromagnetic measurements are being made during direct lightning strikes by NASA Langley Center using a specially instrumented F-106B aircraft. The research is to aid refinement, characterization, and understanding of the lightning-aircraft interaction process and the lightning hazards to aircraft. Statistical methods are applied to characterize some aspects of the lightning data obtained from 176 strikes to the aircraft. Specific attention is given to the problem of estimating the upper extreme quantiles of the distributions of peak-to-peak values for currents and rates of change in the magnetic and flux densities. A formal treatment via a general location-scale family of models allows the estimation method to be adapted to the realized shapes the distributions. The shapes are examined by probability plotting methods.


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    Title :

    Statistical Analysis of Direct-Strike Lightning Data (1980 to 1982)


    Contributors:
    L. D. Lee (author) / G. B. Finelli (author) / M. E. Thomas (author) / F. L. Pitts (author)

    Publication date :

    1984


    Size :

    30 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    1982 Direct Strike Lightning Data

    M. E. Thomas / F. L. Pitts | NTIS | 1983


    The 1980 Direct Strike Lightning Data

    F. L. Pitts / M. E. Thomas | NTIS | 1981


    Initial Direct Strike Lightning Data

    F. L. Pitts / M. E. Thomas | NTIS | 1980


    The 1981 Direct Strike Lightning Data

    F. L. Pitts / M. E. Thomas | NTIS | 1982


    The 1981 direct strike lightning data

    Pitts, F. L. / Thomas, M. E. | NTRS | 1982