Meanings
nounlightning mapper (plural lightning mappers)
plural lightning mappers
- climatologyA system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
- instrumentationThe 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.
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