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Alburt E. Pifer
Researcher at Vaisala
Publications - 12
Citations - 1231
Alburt E. Pifer is an academic researcher from Vaisala. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lightning detection & Lightning. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 12 publications receiving 1174 citations.
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A Combined TOA/MDF Technology Upgrade of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network
Kenneth L. Cummins,Martin J. Murphy,Edward A. Bardo,William L. Hiscox,Richard B. Pyle,Alburt E. Pifer +5 more
TL;DR: The U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) has provided real-time and historical lightning data to the electric utility industry, the National Weather Service, and other government and commercial users.
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Lightning detection and data acquisition system
TL;DR: In this article, a plurality of remote programmable sensor is utilized to detect cloud to ground and IC lightning strikes, and analog representations of the lightning strikes are converted to digital signals.
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Systems and methods for time corrected lightning detection
TL;DR: In this article, a lightning detection system with an analyzer is described, where each sensor provides messages having sensor identification, an amplitude responsive to the lightning stroke, and a time of detecting the stroke.
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Improved Lightning Locations in the Tohoku Region of Japan using Propagation and Waveform Onset Corrections
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Thunderstorm sensor and method of identifying and locating thunderstorms
TL;DR: In this article, a pair of orthogonally positioned magnetic loop antennas are coupled to an analog signal processor and digitizer, which provides digital representations of the peak radiated electric field and the electric field sampled at a time subsequent to the time of occurrence of the radiated field, wherein the second sampled electric field value represents the electrostatic field change due to the lightning discharge.