Posterior segment involvelent in remote lightning strike
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Multiscale Analysis of Lightning Strike Maps
Electric power utilities face increasing demand for service reliability. Since cloud-toground lightning strikes are among the most frequent yet least understood causes of service interruption, predicting the geographical and temporal distribution of the lightning strikes can help power system planners and designers improve the protection of new and existing transmission lines. Lightning is the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1560-2133,1560-2133
DOI: 10.35119/asjoo.v15i1.162