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Return Stroke Current

Return Stroke Current is a lightning discharge phenomenon characterized as the rapid, high-amplitude electric current that propagates upward from the ground to the cloud along a pre-ionized channel during the main phase of a cloud-to-ground lightning strike.

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Review and evaluation of lightning return stroke models including some aspects of their application

Vladimir A. Rakov, M. A. Uman · IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility · 1998 · 559 citations

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Magnetic field of lightning return stroke

M. A. Uman, D. Kenneth McLain · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1969 · 453 citations

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Lightning-induced voltages on overhead lines

Carlo Alberto Nucci, Farhad Rachidi, M. Ianoz et al. · IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility · 1993 · 377 citations · Full text

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Current and electromagnetic field associated with lightning-return strokes to tall towers

Farhad Rachidi, W. Janischewskyj, A.M. Hussein et al. · IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility · 2001 · 327 citations · Full text

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On lightning return stroke models for LEMP calculations

C.A. Nucci, C. Mazzetti, Farhad Rachidi et al. · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 1988 · 309 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MA
    M. A. Uman

    University of Florida, United States

    41 publications · 4.1K citations

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  2. VA
    Vladimir A. Rakov

    University of Florida, United States

    49 publications · 3.5K citations

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  3. FR
    Farhad Rachidi

    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

    38 publications · 2.6K citations

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  4. VC
    Vernon Cooray

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    21 publications · 632 citations

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  5. MR
    Marcos Rubinstein

    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

    20 publications · 791 citations

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218

  1. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    28 h-index

    136 publications

    7K citations

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    22 h-index

    59 publications

    3.5K citations

  3. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    17 h-index

    34 publications

    1K citations

  4. University of Bologna

    Bologna, Italy

    15 h-index

    24 publications

    2.2K citations

  5. HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

    Delémont, Switzerland

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    400 citations

  6. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    10 h-index

    24 publications

    641 citations

  7. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    10 h-index

    15 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. Toronto Metropolitan University

    Toronto, Canada

    10 h-index

    18 publications

    989 citations

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 90 publications · 6.6K citations

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

    19 publications · 994 citations

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  4. Geophysical Research Letters

    22 publications · 973 citations

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  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 20 publications · 548 citations

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