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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ON THE WEB
 
Research Groups and Projects
Organizations
Lightning Protection
Sprites, Jets, and Elves
Lightning Detection
Lightning Injury and Death
Ball Lightning
NASA Sites
Lightning Safety
Lightning on Jupiter
Lightning Photography
Miscellaneous

Lightning Research Groups and Projects

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

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