ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ON THE WEB
University of Florida Lightning Research Group
http://www.lightning.ece.ufl.edu/
Atmospheric Electricity Home Page Maintained by Monte
Bateman
http://ae.nsstc.uah.edu/
Thunderstorm and Lightning Research at Langmuir Laboratory
http://www.lightning.nmt.edu/
The Atmospheric Physics Program Physics Department, New
Mexico Tech/Atmospheric Electricity
http://www.physics.nmt.edu/Research/atmos.html
Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research
http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~langmuir/homepage.html/
Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity Projects/University
of Arizona
http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/faculty/research/lightning/
Cooperative Institute for Applied Meteorological Studies
(CIAMS), Texas A&M University
http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/faculty/orville.html
NSSL Research Topics - Lightning
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/researchitems/lightning.shtml
Atmospheric Physics Research at the University of Mississippi
http://www.olemiss.edu/research/atmospheric_physics/home.html
Radar Meteorology Group, Colorado State University
http://olympic.atmos.colostate.edu/
Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation
Study
(STEPS-2000)
http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/community/steps.html
Ground-Based Investigations of Lightning in Support of
the FORTE
Satellite/Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://edot.lanl.gov/
STARLab Very Low Frequency (VLF) Research Group Home Page
http://www-star.stanford.edu/~vlf/
Lightning Group of Osaka University
http://www1a.comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/intro_lightning.html
The Atmospheric Electricity Group (ELAT) of the Brazilian
National Institute of Space Research (INPE)
http://www.dge.inpe.br/elat/
Institute of High Voltage Research, Uppsala University
http://thunder.hvi.uu.se/
Power Systems Laboratory (LRE) of the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
http://lrewww.epfl.ch/
Norwegian Center of Knowledge
http://www.sintef.no/content/page2____3452.aspx
High Voltage Laboratory, Mississippi State University
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/hvl/index.html
High Voltage Laboratory, Ohio State University
http://eewww.eng.ohio-state.edu/~sebo/hvlab.html
Lightning Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/
UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences:
http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/web/research/index.html
Colorado Lightning Resource Page:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/ltg.php
FSU Fuelberg Lab Metereology Research:
http://fuelberg.met.fsu.edu/research/
National Severe Storms Laboratory Lightning Research:
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/researchitems/lightning.shtml
UNESCO-HP Project - "Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain-drain in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro":
http://www.unesco-hp.cg.ac.yu/DrJankoKosmac.htm
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Sprites, Jets, and Elves
Red Sprites and Blue Jets/University of Alaska
http://elf.gi.alaska.edu/
FMA Research, Inc.
http://www.fma-research.com./
Sprites99 Balloon Campaign/University of Houston
http://www.uh.edu/research/spg/Sprites99.html
Sprites, Q-Bursts and Positive Ground Strokes
http://web.mit.edu/cgcs/www/rpts.html
Sprites and Elves/New Mexico Tech
http://ibis.nmt.edu/sprites/sprites.html
The Physics of High Altitude Lightning by Juan Alejandro
Valdivia (Ph.D Thesis)
http://fisica.ciencias.uchile.cl/alejo/thesis/thesis.pdf
The Fly's Eye: Fast Photometry of Sprites and Elves, Stanford University:
http://www-star.stanford.edu/~vlf/optical/fly/
NASA's Sprite Page:
http://www-star.stanford.edu/~vlf/optical/fly/
FMA Research - Sprites, Jets and Elves:
http://www.fma-research.com/spriteres.htm
AOGS, Lightning, sprites, and their effects:
http://www.asiaoceania-conference.org/oa/soa9.htm
Blue Jet Video:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2002/march20/bluejet_video-320.html
Darwin Sprites at University of Otago, 1997:
http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/space/darwin97/darwin97.html
Matt Heavner's Sprite and Jet Research Papers:
http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~heavner/rs/pap/
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges Corte in Corsica, July 24-31, 2004:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~eesmf/SUMMER/
Three Dimensional Simulation of Sprites and Elves, Naval Research Facility:
http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/lightning/
Coupling of Atmospheric Layers Research Group:
http://www.dsri.dk/cal/
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Ball Lightning
http://polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu/~bdaye/balligh.html
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
Anatomy of a Lightning Ball, Science News Online:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020209/bob8.asp
Ball Lightning, ABC Science News Online:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s520317.htm
Max Planck Institute, Ball Lightning in the Laboratory:
http://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/eng/presse/pi/05_06_pi.html
Ball Lightning, NewScientist.com:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1720
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Lightning on Jupiter
Lightning on Jupiter observed in the Ha line by the Cassini imaging science subsystem, Ulyana Dyudina:
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~ulyana/www_papers/lightning_cassini.pdf
http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/galileo_probe/htmls/Lightning.html
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01638
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01096
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/galileo/img-9-lightning.cfm
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Organizations
International Electrotechnical Commission
http://www.iec.ch/
NOAA
http://www.noaa.gov/
National Severe Storms Laboratory
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/
National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
National Hurricane Center
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
http://www.ucar.edu/
Society of Atmospheric Electricity of Japan
http://www1a.comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~saej/jae24_1.html
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms:
http://www.caps.ou.edu/
Australia Severe Weather:
http://www.australiasevereweather.com/
World Weather Information Service:
http://www.worldweather.org/
American Meterological Society:
http://www.ametsoc.org/
National Weather Association:
http://www.nwas.org/
SkyWarn National Homepage:
http://www.skywarn.org/
International Association of Broadcast Meteorology:
http://iabm.org/
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Lightning Detection
Vaisala
http://www.vaisala.com/
Lightning Explorer
https://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/
Year by Year Bibliography on Real-Time Lightning Detection
Networks
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~holle/LtgByYear.html
Austrian Lightning Detection & Information System
(ALDIS)
http://www.aldis.at/index_e.html
Météorage, French Lightning Detection Network
http://www.meteorage.fr/meteorage.fr/index.php
Italian Lightning Detection Network
http://www.fulmini.it/about_sirf/default_eng.htm
Slovenian Lightning Detection Network
http://observer.eimv.si/
SAFIR
http://www1a.comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~lrg/safir/safir.html
Lightning Detection and Ranging (LDAR) Dataset Summary
http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/uso/readme/ldar.html
LDAR at John F. Kennedy Space Center, FL
http://www.nasatech.com/Briefs/Apr98/KSC11785.html
The New Mexico Tech 3D Lightning Mapping System
http://ibis.nmt.edu/nmt_lms/
Lightning Detection from Space:
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/lisotd_old.html
United States Precision Lightning Network:
http://www.uspln.com/
European Cooperation for Lightning Detection:
http://www.euclid.org/
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NASA Sites
Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the Global Hydrology
and Climate Center (GHCC)
http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Global Hydrology
Resource Center Dataset Descriptions/Lightning
http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/
NASA/MSFC/ESSD - Shuttle Lightning Observations
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/skeets.html
NASA MSFC Systems Analysis and Integration Laboratory
(SAIL)/Electromagnetic Effects
http://see.msfc.nasa.gov/ee/eepub.htm
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/
KSC Fact Sheet "Lightning and the Space Program"
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/nasafact/lightnin.htm
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Lightning Photography
LightningPhotography.com:
http://www.lightningphotography.com/
Chuck Doswell's Lightning Photography Page:
http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/ltgph.html
Weather-Photography.com's Lightning Gallery:
http://www.weather-photography.com/gallery.php?cat=lightning
Jeff Smith's Lightning gallery:
http://www.lightningsmiths.com/lightning_gallery_02.html
Lightning Photography by Susan Storm:
http://www.lightninglady.com/
Electric Skies, Lightning and Storm Photography by Radek Dolecki:
http://www.electricskies.com.au/
Florida Lightning Gallery by Matthew Kelly:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/dkelly11/gallery.html
Lightning Photos:
http://www.wetter-foto.de/fotos-1-1-all-Blitze.html
How to take Lightning Photos, by Matthew Cole:
http://www.uscoles.com/howtolightn.htm
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Lightning
Protection
NFPA-780
http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/AboutTheCodes.asp?DocNum=780
Lightning Protection Institute (LPI)
http://www.lightning.org/?page=home
IEC Technical Committee N° 81: Lightning Protection
http://www.iec.ch/cgi-bin/procgi.pl/www/iecwww.p?wwwlang=E&wwwprog=dirdet.p&committee=TC&number=81
IEC Technical Committee N° 37: Surge Arresters
http://www.iec.ch/cgi-bin/procgi.pl/www/iecwww.p?wwwlang=E&wwwprog=dirdet.p&committee=TC&number=37
IEC Subcommittee 37A: Low-Voltage Surge Protective Devices
http://www.iec.ch/cgi-bin/procgi.pl/www/iecwww.p?wwwlang=E&wwwprog=dirdet.p&committee=SC&number=37A
IEEE Surge Protective Devices Committee
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/spd/
EPRI Solutions
http://www.eprisolutions.com/
Wind & Sun's Lightning Protection Page:
http://www.windsun.com/Lightning_Protection.htm
Lightning Protection Institute:
http://www.lightning.org/?page=home
Lightning Safety Alliance:
http://www.lightningsafetyalliance.com/
Lightning Technologies:
http://www.lightningtech.com/intro.html
Boating-Lightning Protection:
http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/docs/d000001-d000100/d000007/d000007.html
Lightning Protection for Farms:
http://www.wisconsinpublicservice.com/farm/lightning.asp
United Lightning Protection Association:
http://www.ulpa.org/
West Virginia - Lightning Protection:
http://wvlightning.com/protection.shtml
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Lightning Injury/Death
Lightning Injury Research Program, University of Illinois at Chicago:
http://tigger.uic.edu/labs/lightninginjury/
Lightning Fatalities, Injuries, and Damage Reports in the United States from 1959-1994, National Weather Service Forecast Office:
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/papers/techmemos/NWS-SR-193/techmemo-sr193.html
Distributions of Lightning-Caused Casualties and Damages Since 1959 in the United States, University of Illinois at Chicago:
http://www.uic.edu/labs/lightninginjury/holle30yrs.htm
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Lightning Safety
Lightning Incidents, National Lightning Safety Institute:
http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_lls.html
When lightning strikes people, NASA:
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd18jun99_1.htm
National Weather Service: Lightning—The Underrated Killer:
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/overview.htm
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Miscellaneous
"Petrified Lightning" from Central Florida Event, Camp Landing, FL:
http://home.att.net/~amcnet2/album/fulguriteintroduction.html
Microclimate Senesor and image acquisition networks:
http://research.cens.ucla.edu/projects/2006/Terrestrial/Microclimate/default.htm
Lightning Induced Over Voltage (LIOV) Code
http://www.ing.unibo.it/die/liov/
Matt Heavner's Los Alamos National Laboratory Page:
http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~heavner/
ONERA, Lightning Strike to Aircraft
http://www.onera.fr/cahierdelabo/english/asubf.htm