%0 Journal Article
%T Radio-Acoustic Study of Thunderstorms
%A Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli
%J Journal of Sensor Technology
%P 51-58
%@ 2161-1238
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jst.2023.133005
%X The observation, in the past, that a thunderstorm perturbed the transmissions of an old vacuum tubes radio with noise discharges in correspondence with lightnings, suggested the possibility of radio-acoustic study of thunderstorms. The noise discharges appeared to convey not only information about lightnings, but also about any other thunderstorm electromagnetic phenomena generating noise discharges. The low-cost instrumentation involved in the radio-acoustic study, comprised a radio Telefunken mod. T33B, a 15 m long indoor wire antenna, a mobile telephone Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G provided with the recorder App Enregistreur vocal, a computer HP Pavillion dv5-1254eg and the s/w audio analyser Audacity. A first thunderstorm on 20 June 2023 and a second thunderstorm on 22 June 2023, both above Munich, were radio-acoustic studied. The second thunderstorm was more active than the first and released much more energy.
%K Thunderstorms
%K Radio-Acoustics
%K Vacuum Tube Radio
%K Noise Discharges
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=127603