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lightning mapper
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Noun
lightning mapper (plural lightning mappers)
- (meteorology) A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
- (instrumentation) The component of such a system that gathers the required data, comprising an interconnected network of electric field change sensors that measure the time of arrival of electric field pulses from the strokes in a lightning flash. Two-dimensional maps require three such sensors, and three-dimensional maps require four.
See also
Lightning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:lightning detectors on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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