Identify the most destructive lightning strikes.

Continuing Current Dataset

Fewer than 10% of lightning strokes have continuing current, and are likely to cause extreme heat damage or start a fire. The Continuing Current Dataset is designed for the identification and location of lightning events like these which are likely to have caused damage through heating so you can more effectively prioritize inspections and prevent further damage.

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Vaisala's Continuing current Dataset has been developed to identify the small fraction of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes with continuing current; they are the events that can be the most destructive and are most likely to initiate wildfires, put holes in wind turbine blades and damage other electro-mechanical assets.

The majority of these destructive events cause extreme heating, having a duration up to 1000 times longer than the other 90% of strokes, as they transfer significantly more electric charge to whatever they are in contact with. When your operations get hit by a thousand lightning strikes in a single storm-event, identifying these lightning strikes provides valuable information for preventing further damage.

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Lightning Strikes

How do we Identify the Most Destructive Lightning Strikes

Vaisala’s NLDN and GLD360 lightning networks accurately distinguish cloud-to-ground lightning strokes from cloud lightning and precisely identify their location, by analysis of the electromagnetic signal.

Key Benefits:

  • Faster identification and more effective inspection of likely damaged areas or areas in which a fire might have started
  • Warning alerts that infrastructure is likely to have been seriously damaged.
  • Early intervention to prevent progressive damage
  • Cost reduction by prioritizing post-storm inspections of assets and infrastructure likely to have been damaged.