Author(s)

Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli

Department of History & Geography, Université de la Bretagne de l’Ouest, Brest, France.

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.

Thunderstorms, Radio-Acoustics, Vacuum Tube Radio, Noise Discharges

Tomezzoli, G. (2023) Radio-Acoustic Study of Thunderstorms. Journal of Sensor Technology, 13, 51-58. doi: 10.4236/jst.2023.133005.