The Karzas-Latter-Seiler Model of a High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse: A New Numerical Code for an Old Model
arxiv(2024)
摘要
A high-altitude nuclear blast can produce an electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
capable of disrupting electronics on Earth. The basic phenomenology of the
initial (E1) phase of the EMP was initially worked out in the 1960s by
Longmire, Karzas, and Latter, and although more accurate and sophisticated EMP
models have since been devised, the Karzas-Latter model is particularly simple
and amenable to implementation as a numerical code. This paper accompanies the
release of a new software implementation of an approximation of the
Karzas-Latter model due to Seiler. This is, as far as we are aware, the only
such publicly available numerical EMP code. After reviewing the physics and
assumptions of the model, the numerical results for EMP simulations under a
range of conditions are presented. It is shown how the results from multiple
line of sight integrations of the field equations can be assembled to form a
map of the EMP intensity across a broad geographic region. The model
predictions are at least qualitatively correct and in general agreement with
other simulation results, including the characteristic "smile" pattern in the
spatial variation of the EMP intensity.
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