lightning mapper (English, noun)
expansion: lightning mapper (plural lightning mappers)
Senses:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
qualifier: instrumentation
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: lightning mappers
tags: plural