Publications de Davide Pavanello

Säntis Lightning Research Facility Instrumentation

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Abraham Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, David Smith, Carlos Alberto Romero Romero, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Antonio Sunjerga

The Säntis Tower was instrumented in May 2010 to measure currents of lightning discharges striking the tower. Since then the system has been recurrently updated and expanded. Currently, data associated with lightning strikes to the tower are collected at f ...

2021

Characteristics of different charge transfer modes in upward flashes inferred from simultaneously measured currents and fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Lixia He, Qi Li

The authors present an analysis of different charge transfer modes during upward negative flashes. The analysis includes a total number of 94 pulses that occurred during two upward negative flashes recorded at the Säntis Tower. The pulses included 59 mixed ...

2020

Electromagnetic Fields Associated With the M‐Component Mode of Charge Transfer

Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Lixia He

In upward flashes, charge transfer to ground largely takes place during the initial continuous current (ICC) and its superimposed pulses (ICC pulses). ICC pulses can be associated with either M-component or leader/return-stroke like modes of charge transfe ...

2019

A Study of a Large Bipolar Lightning Event Observed at the Säntis Tower

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Wolfgang Schulz

An unusual negative lightning flash was recorded at the Säntis Tower on June 15, 2012. The flash did not contain an initial continuous current typical of upward negative lightning, which is the most common type of event at the Säntis Tower. The flash conta ...

2019

Analysis of a bipolar upward lightning flash based on simultaneous records of currents and 380-km distant electric fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Dongshuai Li, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Wolfgang Schulz

In this paper, we present and discuss simultaneous records of current and wideband electric field waveforms at 380 km distance from the strike point associated with an upward bipolar flash initiated from the Säntis Tower. The flash contains 23 negative str ...

Elsevier2019

Pulses in Upward Negative Lightning at the Säntis Tower in Northeastern Switzerland

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Lixia He

Upward lightning happens predominantly from tall objects. The channel-base currents associated with upward negative lightning initiated from towers exhibit pulses that can be classified, based on their waveform features and on the concurrence with other pr ...

2019

Two Possible Scenarios for the Formation of Category 1 Bipolar Lightning Flashes

Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Qi Li

We present and discuss the current and electric field waveforms associated with two upward bipolar lightning flashes that occurred at the Säntis Tower. According to the traditional classification of bipolar flashes, both observed flashes could be classifie ...

2019

An Analysis of Current and Electric Field Pulses Associated With Upward Negative Lightning Flashes Initiated from the Säntis Tower

Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Lixia He

We present a study on the characteristics of current and electric field pulses associated with upward lightning flashes initiated from the instrumented Säntis Tower in Switzerland. The electric field was measured 15 km from the tower. Upward flashes always ...

2018

Modeling of Different Charge Transfer Modes in Upward Flashes Constrained by Simultaneously Measured Currents and Fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar, Lixia He, Qi Li

The purpose of the paper is to investigate charge transfer modes in upward lightning flashes by means of numerical simulation constrained by concurrent observations of electromagnetic fields and currents. In particular, we focus on different types of pulse ...

2018

On the Similarity of Electric Field Signatures of Upward and Downward Negative Leaders

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Stefan Metz, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar

2018

Analysis of lightning-ionosphere interaction using simultaneous records of source current and 380 km distant electric field

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar, Dongshuai Li, Wolfgang Schulz

We present simultaneous current and wideband electric field waveforms at 380 km associated with upward lightning flashes initiated from the Santis Tower, Switzerland. To the best of our knowledge, the dataset presented in this study includes the first simu ...

Elsevier2017

A Large Bipolar Event Recorded at the Säntis Tower

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar, Wolfgang Schulz

2017

Simultaneous Records of Current and 380-km Distant Electric Field of a Bipolar Lightning Flash

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Wolfgang Schulz

2017

Evaluation of the performance characteristics of the European Lightning Detection Network EUCLID in the Alps region for upward negative flashes using direct measurements at the instrumented Säntis Tower

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Carlos Alberto Romero Romero, Mohammad Azadifar, Wolfgang Schulz

In this paper, we present a performance analysis of the European Cooperation for Lightning Detection (EUCLID) lightning detection network using data obtained on lightning currents measured at the Santis Tower (located in northeastern of Switzerland) from J ...

Amer Geophysical Union2016

On Lightning Electromagnetic Field Propagation Along an Irregular Terrain

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Stefan Metz, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar, Dongshuai Li, Zhaoyang Wang, Qilin Zhang

In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis of the propagation effects of lightning electromagnetic fields over a mountainous terrain. The analysis is supported by experimental observations consisting of simultaneous records of lightning currents and ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Fast Initial Continuous Current Pulses vs Return Stroke Pulses in Tower-initiated Lightning

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Stefan Metz, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar

We present a study focused on pulses superimposed on the initial continuous current of upward negative discharges. The study is based on experimental data consisting of correlated lightning current waveforms recorded at the instrumented Santis Tower in Swi ...

Amer Geophysical Union2016

Bipolar Lightning Flashes Observed at the Säntis Tower: Do We Need to Modify the Traditional Classification?

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar

We present and discuss current waveforms associated with 13 bipolar lightning flashes recorded at the Santis Tower during the period from June 2010 to January 2015. During this period, a total of 427 flashes were recorded, of which 13 (3%) were classified ...

American Geophysical Union2016

Simultaneous Current and Distant Electric Field Waveforms from Upward Lightning: Effect of Ionospheric Reflection

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar, Dongshuai Li

2016

An Update on the Measurements of Lightning Currents and Electromagnetic Fields Associated with Flashes to the Säntis Tower in Switzerland

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar, Dongshuai Li

2016

Bipolar Lightning Flashes Observed at the Säntis Tower

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mario Paolone, Mohammad Azadifar

2016