ILDC/ILMC 2020 Archive - Abstracts only The conference has been cancelled due to COVID-19 A Comprehensive Climatology of NLDN CG Lightning Flashes in the CONUS A Detailed Analysis of Lightning Deaths in the United States from 2006 through 2019 A modified K-Means method to evaluate location accuracy of lightning networks based on video data A new comprehensive lightning instrumentation system for the mobile launcher 1 A summary of direct and close nearby ligthning strikes Aerosol Effects on Lightning Characteristics over the South China Sea African Centres for Lightinng and Electromagnetics Network ACLENet Progress Report Analyses of Ground Truth Positive Flash Data and Corresponding Lightning Location System Performance Analysis of Clear-Air Lightning using the KMA Operational LINET System Analysis of Clear-Air Lightning using the KMA Operational LINET System Analysis of Lightning Activity Variations over Papua New Guinea Analysis of location errors of the NLDN using lightning strikes to towers Analysis of the Certified Lightning Fatalities and their Relation with the Rainy Seasons in Colombia Application of Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Lightning Geo-Localization Recent Advancements Application of the US National Lightning Detection Network Assessing the Impact of Lightning Data Assimilation for Improving Very short-range Forecasts Application of Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Lightning Geo-Localization Recent Advancements Assessment of the EUCLID System on the Basis of Various Current Pulses Assimilation of merged NLDN GLD360 and GLM lightning data Calibration and Assessment of Broadband VHF Interferometer Systems Characteristics of Lightning Strikes Distribution over the Korean Peninsula Characteristics of the Parent Lightning of Sprites Observed in and Around Florida Characterizing Lightning Activity Across the Caribbean Cloud to Ground Lightning Activity in Colombia using the GLD360 Cloud-to-Ground Lightning During Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Michael (2018) Comparison of Far Electric Field Waveforms D Region Tomography A Technique for Ionospheric Imaging Designing a precision VLF detector with low cost components to enable high density networks Development of Lightning Location Technology for Low-Frequency E-field Detection Array Comparison of Far Electric Field Waveforms Development of Trend Analysis Techniques for Aviation and Range Operations Weather Hazards Discharge processes during downward TGFs at the Telescope Array in Utah Cloud-to-Ground Lightning During Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Michael (2018) Earth Networks Lightning Network Performance Effectiveness of Dissipation Array Systems (DAS) to prevent direct lightning strikes Empirical Determination of VLF Propagation Parameters in the Earth Ionosphere Waveguide Using GLD360 Environmental, kinematic and microphysical conditions leading to anomalous and normal polarity storms Evaluation for the tall object Lightning Detection Ability Evaluation of M Components in Natural Cloud to Ground Lightning FY-4A LMI Observed Lightning Activity in Super Typhoon Mangkhut 2018 Geostationary Lightning Mapper Storms Global Lightning Climatology Estimates using Peak Current Distribution Observations Ground level observations of energetic photons associated with lightning Ground-Truth Instrumentation and Data to Evaluate MERLIN s Tall Structure Detection Efficiency Guidelines for Airport Ramp Closures Due to Lightning Human Lightning Casualties Related to Fishing and Tending Animals Influence of the Canton Tower on Lightning Flashes in its Vicinity using Optical Observation Data Inner-core Lightning and Vertical Structures associated with Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change Insights from Geostationary Lightning Mapper Gridded Products Interactions between the Ionosphere and High Altitude Lightning Observed through GNSS Investigation of Lightning Mass Casualty Incident at Mongoyo School, Uganda Is the Occurrence of Superbolts Influenced by Solar Weather Lightning An Essential Climate Variable and Community Perspective Lightning An Indicator of Gravity Wave Generation lightning behavior during two major flooding events in 2019 in the Houston Metropolitan Area Lightning Characteristics in Relation to Hurricane Intensity Lightning characteristics of typhoon Faxai and typhoon Hagibis observed by Tokyo LMA Lightning Geolocation Using V-POTEKA Lightning Observation Network Lightning in winter observed by the JLDN Lightning Induced Challenges for Industry in General Power Plants, Manufacturing Facilities, etc. Lightning Monitoring Detection and Location for Critical Facilities Lightning Observation Project at INPE Brazil lightning observations from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the International Space station (ISS) Lightning Warnings using Locating Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strikes to the Forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama Maximum Month and Hour of Lightning around the Globe Meteorological context of lightning detected over the Arctic Ocean in summer 2019 Model Study on the Formation of the Charge Structure Modeling and Analysis on the Influence of Electrode Configuration in Simulated Lightning Strike Tests Nowcasting Potentially Severe Thunderstorms Nuevo sistema integral de protección contra las descargas atmosfericas Observation of VHF events occurred with lightning Observations of positive lightning flashes using Cordoba Marx Meter Array Observing ground TGFs with the Telescope Array Surface Detector in correlation with IBPs On the current and electromagnetic fields of Compact Cloud Discharges One Strike, You're Out! A Preliminary Look at Lightning Surrounding MLB Stadiums Optical observation results of negative GC-type strokes Optimizing the Lightning Warning Radii at Spaceport Florida Performance of GLD360 During the Anak Krakatau Explosive Event of December 2018 Performance validation of ground strike point algorithms Predicting the Unique Lightning Climatology of Central Arizona Randomizing Lightning Strike Locations Demonstrates Geological Control of Strike Locations Reassessment of NFPA 780 versus IEC 62305-3 Requirements for Installations in the United States Recent Results Obtained at the Lightning Observatory in Gainesville, Florida Resolving Needles and Fine-Scale Lightning Processes with 100-200 MHz VHF Interferometry Should the evaluation of lighting environment matter when we are making conservation guidelines Simulating the energetic impacts of lightning Solar Induction of Mid Ocean Ridge Circuits Lightning Tells The Story South Africa Spatio-temporal Analysis of Lightning Activities over Pakistan During 2001-2014 Statistics on the occurrence of continuing current in cloud to ground lightning flashes Status and Future Plans for Total Lightning Training in the NOAA National Weather ServiceWS Striking Back Against U.S. Lightning Deaths Supercharging lightning data with distributional regression Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and Energetic Intra-Cloud Lightning in Northeast Colorado TETRA-II ground level observations of energetic photons associated with lightning The Detection of Optical Lightning Superbolts by the FORTE Satellite The First Lightning Research Infrastructure in Uganda The Initial Test Deployment of a 2nd-generation Broadband VHF Interferometer System The Johannesburg Lightning Laboratory The Mechanics of Lightning The Mid-Atlantic Lightning Mapping Array (MALMA) Deployment The Shocking Impact of Lightning on America s Space Program in Florida The Western Mediterranean thunderstorms climatology Time versus distance analysis of lightning activity for some lightning accidents in Austria Toward a Determination of the Extent of Lightning-ignited Forest Fires in the Caribbean Towards the use of lightning for tropical cyclone intensity prediction 1 Transient Response of Surge Protective Devices Upward Leader Currents Measured at the KSC Industrial Area Tower Using Elves Recorded by the Pierre Auger Observatory to Study Argentinian Superbolts Using the GLD360 to provide accurate lightning statistics Using volcanic lightning to monitor eruption plume development during explosive volcanic eruptions Vaisala Charge Transfer overview and initial validation Variability and trends of lightning flashes in future climate change scenarios Why does the Santis Tower have the Highest Observed Number of Fast Pulses per Flash ILDC/ILMC 2018 Archive Please note that not all authors submitted a final paper for publishing. Lightning Physics 1 Ground Level Observation of Gamma-ray Showers in Coincidence With Downward Lightning Leaders_R. Rabbasi et al.pdf Characteristics of Lightning Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes in Various Geographical Regions_B. Mailyan et al.pdf Tower-initiated Lightning Upward Lightning Triggering Study_T.A. Warner et al.pdf Striking Distance Determined from a New Criterion_S. Visacro et al.pdf Denoising CN Tower Lightning-generated Magnetic Field Return-stroke Signals_N. Ouarda and A. Hussein.pdf Meteorology & Severe Weather 1 Radar Reflectivity Associated with the Enveloped Eyewall Lightning_C. Vagasky.pdf Lightning Protection Power Loads Fast Transfer and Control of Dynamic Lightning_N. Wang et al.pdf Adoption of IEC 62305 as the Basis for One Major U.S. Electric_G.T. Brandon.pdf Using Genetic Algorithms in Designing Substation Lightning Shielding_P. Sarajcev et al.pdf Lightning Physics 2 An Electrostatic Model of Bidirectional Leader Observed_M.D. Tran and V.A. Rakov.pdf Analysis of the Charge Distribution and Leaders_C. Schumann et al.pdf Relationship between aerological stability and charge amount of upward lightning_M. Saito and M. Ishii.pdf Luminosity Characteristics of the CN Tower Lightning Flash Components_I. Sra and A.M. Hussein.pdf On the Propogation Mode of Upward Positive Leaders_M. Guimaraes et al.pdf Self-initiated Versus Nearby-lightning-triggered Upward Flashes_G. Diendorfer et al.pdf Meteorology & Severe Weather 2 Environmental Conditions Producing Thunderstorms_D.R. MacGorman et al.pdf Evaluating the Efficacy of Electrical Field Mills to Predict Lightning Events_D.E. Hill et al.pdf Lightning Detection and Observations Recent CIGRE Work on Lightning Parameters_V. Rakov.pdf A Detailed Look at the Performance Characteristics_D. Zhang et al.pdf Extreme Values of Lightning Parameters_A. Smorgonskiy et al.pdf D Region Ionospheric Imaging Using VLF LF Broadband Sferics_J. McCormick and M.B. Cohen.pdf Recovery of Valuable Incompletely-recorded Return-stroke_L. Perera and A.M. Hussein.pdf Interferometric Radio Imaging of the Initiation and Propagation_S.A. Cummer et al.pdf Lightning Climatologies Characteristics of Lightning Activity in Japan_A. Sugita and M Matsui.pdf An Analysis of Lightning Activity at Santis Tower_A. Mostajabi et al.pdf LLS Technology & Performance Evaluation 1 & 2 Evaluating GLM in South America_C.A. Morales et al.pdf Comparison and Characterisation of ATDnet_S.-E. Enno et al.pdf BrasilDAT Dataset Combining Data from Different Lightning Locating Systems_O. Pinto Jr. and I.R.C.A. Pinto.pdf Toward Lightning Mapping with Long-baseline LF Networks_M.J. Murphy and R.K. Said.pdf Evaluation of systematic location error of GHMLLS_W. Lyu et al.pdf Broadband VHF Interferometry withing the Kennedy Space Center_M.A. Stanley et al.pdf Device for Lightning-current Measurement with Remove Access_L. Araujo et al.pdf Applications of Lightning Data A Hertzsprung-Russel Approach for Taxonomy_A. Friend and K. Dudley.pdf Lightning Impacts on College Football Games_R.L. Holle and K.W. Flanagan.pdf Visualizing Geostationary Lightning Mapper Data_S.D. Rudlosky and M.J. Peterson.pdf ILDC Posters Advances in the RaioSAT Project Detecting Lightning from Space Using a Nanosatellite_K.P. Naccarato et al.pdf Comparison of Two Cloud-to-ground Stroke Datasets – Vaisala and WSI_K. Gray et al.pdf Development of a Lightning Location System Based on Electromagnetic Time Reversal_M. Rubinstein et al.pdf Comparison of Data from the North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array and the GOES-16_J. Trostel et al.pdf The Added Value of Geostationary Lighting_M.J. Peterson and S. Rudlosky.pdf Analysis of Intra-cloud Pulses Detected with Low Frequency Lightning Locating Systems_S. Pedeboy et al.pdf Python in Lightning Detection Network Data_P. Sarajcev and H. Matijasevic.pdf ILMC Posters Forecasting Lightning Initiation Using Dual-Polarization Radar and the Lightning Mapping _S.A. Olsen et al.pdf Forecasting Lightning Cessation Using Dual-Polarization Radar and Lightning Mapping Array _N. Holden et al.pdf Spatial characteristics of lightning relative to supercell kinematics and microphysics_S.M. Stough et al.pdf Evaluation of thunderstorm warnings in Belgium_D. Poelman et al.pdf An Analysis of the Lightning Jump Algorithm Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper Flashes_N. Curtis et al.pdf ENSO Related Interannual Lightning Variability from the Full TRMM LIS_A. Clark and D. Cecil.pdf Monthly GLD360 Lightning Percentages by Continent_R.L. Holle et al.pdf Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Malawi Lightning in January 2017_L. Kalindekafe et al.pdf Volcanic lightning as monitoring tool during 2016-2017 eruption of Bogoslof Volcano AK_C.M. Smith et al.pdf Lightning flash density in Europe on the basis of 10 years of ATDnet data_S.-E. Enno et al.pdf Lightning Fatalities and Injuries in Bangladesh from 1990 through 2017_R.L. Holle et al.pdf African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network ACLENet_M.A. Cooper et al.pdf ILDC/ILMC 2016 Archive Invited Papers Edward Mansell et al. Using Model Storms to Simulate Lightning.pdf Xiushu Qie et al. Study on Dynamic-Microphysical-Electrical Processes in Severe Thunderstorms.pdf Lightning Physics Manh Tran and Vladimir Rakov. High-speed Video Observation of Bidirectional Leader.pdf Ye Tian et. al. Characteristics of a Bipolar Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash.pdf Christopher Biagi et al. On the Spatial Structure of Electric Fields.pdf Marcelo Saba et al. Lightning Attachment Process to Common Buildings_M. Saba.pdf Michael Oblinski et al. Photo of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Showing Multiple Upward Leaders.pdf A. Chilingarian. Lightnings and Particle Fluxes from Thunderclouds.pdf Jonathan Hill and Carlos. Mata. Comments on Recent Observations of Faintly Luminous Formations.pdf Miguel Guimaraes and Silverio Visacro. On the Features of a Dart-Stepped Leader.pdf Paul Krehbiel et al. NBEs and Lightning Initiation.pdf Takeshi Okuda. Burst of High Energy Radiation from Lightning Discharge.pdf Tower-Initiated & Rocket Triggered Lightning Carina Schumann et al. Characteristics of Positive Cloud-to-Ground Flashes Triggering Upward Flashes.pdf Daohong Wang et al. Bi-directional Discharges Occurring at the Tip of Dart Stepped Leaders.pdf Gaopeng Lu et al. Bursts of Magnetic Pulses from Upward Positive Leader.pdf Gaopeng Lu et al. Characterization of Initial Current Pulses in Rocket-Triggered Lightning.pdf Mohammed Azadifar et al. Simultaneous Current and Distant Electric Field Waveforms.pdf Yanan Zhu et al. Unusual Electric Field Waveforms Produced by Negative Lightning Strokes.pdf Safety & Warnings: Casualty Distributions John Jensenius, Jr. A Detailed Analysis of Lightning Deaths in the US.pdf Richard Tushemereirwe et al. The Most Effective Methods for Delivering Severe Weather Early Warnings.pdf Ron Holle. Number of Documented Global Lightning Fatalities.pdf William Roeder. Changes in U.S. Annual Lightning Fatalities from 1990-2015.pdf Meteorology & Severe Weather Dong Zheng et al. Characteristics of the Two Active Stages of Lightning.pdf John Trostel et al. North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array - June 24, 2015 Microburst Case Study.pdf Lan Tao et al. Characteristics Analysis of a Nocturnal Bow Echo.pdf Ron Holle and Martin Murphy. Lightning Over Three Large Tropical Lakes.pdf Stephane Pedeboy et al. First Results on Severe Storms Prediction Based on the French LLS.pdf Tatiana Kudrinskaya et al. Experimental Studies of the Behavior of the Electric Field.pdf Xiaoyuan Yi et al. Evolution of the Four Heavy Rainfall Cells Structure.pdf Donald MacGorman and Elizabeth DiGangi. Lightning in Secondary Convection.pdf Dongxia Liu and Xiushu Qie. Radar and Lightning Observations of a Supercell Storm.pdf Evan Ruzanski and V. Chandrasekar. An Investigation of Radar-Derived Precursors to Lightning Initiation_E. Ruzanski.pdf Greg Lucas et al. Variability of Surface Electric Fields.pdf Wenjuan Zhang et al. Characteristics of Lightning Activity in Tropical Cyclones.pdf Continental/Global LLS Performance Amitabh Nag et al. Update to the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network.pdf Daile Zhang et al. Evaluation of the National Lightning Detection Network Upgrade Using the Lightning Imaging Sensor.pdf Dieter Poelman et al. Determining Lightning Outliers Based on Belgian Radar Data to Evaluate the Performance of EUCLID.pdf Ryan Said and Martin Murphy. GLD360 Upgrade Performance Analysis and Applications.pdf Sven-Erik Enno et al. ATDnet Detection Efficiency and Cloud Lightning Detection Characteristics.pdf Maikihisa Saito and Masaru Hill. Attenuation Effect of Lossy Ground.pdf Lightning and Wind Turbines Alexander Smorgonskiy et al. On the Estimation of the Number of Upward Flashes From Wind Turbines.pdf Stephan Vogel et al. Lightning Attachment Estimation to Wind Turbines.pdf Meteorology: Numerical Modeling A. A. Bulatov et al. A Nowcasting System for Lightning/Thunderstorms in the Upper Volga Region.pdf Fei Wang et al. Spatial Relationship between Non-inductive Charging Region and Updraft.pdf Rosangela Barreto Biasi Gin et al. Atmospheric Parameters and Lightning Flash Activity Case studies.pdf Lightning Occurance Akiko Sugita and Michihiro Matsui. Lightning Occurrence Characteristics in 2015 in Japan.pdf Jianhua Dai et al. Characteristics of the Distribution-Initiation-Motion-and Evolution.pdf Richard Orville and Gary Huffines. Global Warming Is the Annual Lightning Strike Maximum Migrating to Higher Latitudes.pdf Ron Holle and Ken Cummins. Seasonal Lightning Distributions over North America.pdf LLS Technology & Performance Evaluation Dongshuai Li et al. Location Accuracy Evaluation of ToA-Based Lightning Location Systems.pdf Jonathan Hill et al. Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of MERLIN and NLDN.pdf Kleber Naccarato et al. Total Lightning Flash Detection from Space.pdf Wolfgang Schulz et al. Relationship Between Average Number of Sensors and Detection Efficiency.pdf Yanan Zhu et al. Study of NLDN Responses to Cloud Discharge Activity.pdf Yijun Zhang et al. Performance Characteristics of the LLS of Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau After the Upgrade in 2012.pdf Weital Lu et al. Total-sky Lightning Channel Imager.pdf Yongming Zhang et al. On the Value of Using a 3-axis EB Vector Sensor.pdf Yongming Zhang et al. Small UAV Airborne Electric Field Measurements.pdf Mingyuan Liu et al. A Short-Baseline Lightning VHF Location System in SHATLE.pdf Zhu Baoyou et al. The Jianghuai Area Sferic Array_.pdf Utility & Forecast Applications of Lightning Bob Kochtubajda et al. Lightning and Weather Associated with the Extreme 2014 Wildfire Season.pdf Chong Tong et al. Application of Real Time Lightning Detection for Smart Gird Distribution Systems.pdf Fred Elmendorf. OSS Tools for Automated Event Analysis and Lightning Data Correlation.pdf Paul Sopko et al. Spatial Products Available for Identifying Areas of Likely Wildfire Ignitions.pdf Richard Gamble and Theo Laughner. Lightning Studies To Improve Power Quality.pdf Safety & Warnings John Jensenius, Jr. NOAAs Lightning Safety Awareness Efforts.pdf Lyn Mainwaring et al. Lightning Safety Efforts in Canada 2009 to 2015.pdf Martin Murphy and Ryan Said. Preliminary Analysis of Lightning Warnings in and near the Rocky Mountains.pdf Ron Holle. Lightning-caused Deaths and Injuries in Agriculture.pdf Stephane Schmitt. Thunderstorm Warning Systems - Why Lightning Detection Networks Should be Considered.pdf ILDC/ILMC 2014 Archive ILDC Papers Keynote Presentation From Frogs to a National Network Lightning Physics Optical Evidences of the Inception Mechanisms of Natural Bipolar Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Sensitive Measurement of Lightning Current and Charge Motion Using Coherent Averaging of Low Frequency Magnetic Field Observations Analysis of Forked Strokes Characteristics over Southeastern Brazil During the Summer Season of 2013 Oceanic Storm Characteristics off the Kennedy Space Center Coast Estimates of Recoil Leaders Peak Currents Based on High-Speed Video Observations An ELF Signal Associated with a Positive GC Lightning Event in Winter Tower-Initiated & Rocket Triggered Lightning Recent Measurements and Results Obtained at Morro do cachimbo Station An Intrinsic Fiber-Optic Sensor for Structure Lightning Current Measurement Characteristics of Upward Flashes in Brazil LLS Technology & Data 1 The Need for an International Standard on Lightning Location Systems Performances of the Lightning Ground Contacts Detection Algorithm Based on LLS Data LLS Technology & Data 2 An Update on the Performance Characteristics of the NLDN.pdf EUCLID Located Strokes to the Gaisberg Tower - Accuracy of Location and its Assigned Confidence Ellipse Comparison of Directly Measured Current and JLDN Data Associated with Lightning Strokes Hitting Tokyo Skytree (R) Lightning Interaction with Wind Farms Overview of the Kansas Windfarm2013 Field Program Meteorological Aspects of Two Modes of Lightning Triggered Upward Lightning (LTUL) Events in Sprite-Producing MCSs Technology Enhancements Recent Evolution of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network Enhanced Cloud Lightning Performance of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network Following the 2013 Upgrade Evaluating Location Accuracy of Lightning Location Networks Using Tall Towers Performance of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network during the Kansas Windfarm2012 and 2013 Field Programs Utility & Forensic Applications of Lightning Closing the Gap - Using Open Source Software to Make the Connection Between Lightning and Power System Data Research on Experiment of Lightning Nowcasting and Warning System in Electric Power Department of HeNan Examining the Lightning Polarity of Lightning Caused Wildfires Regional LLS Performance Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of CGLSS and NLDN Based on Two Years of Ground-Truth Data from Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Evaluation of the New LS7001 Network in the Chubu Region of Japan after Site-Error Corrections An Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of the Guangdon-Hongkong-Macau Lightning Location System Continental/Global LLS Performance Validation of the EUCLID LLS During HyMeX SOP1 Calibration of the GLD360 Against Rocket-Triggered Lightning Data.pdf Method to Improve Location Accuracy of the GLD360 Evaluating Ground-Based Lightning Detection Networks Using TRMM/LIS Observations Comparison of GLD360/Meteorage over France Six Years of Sferics Timing and Ranging NETwork - STARNET: A Lightning Climatology over South America ILMC Papers Lightning Protection Three Essentials of Lightning Protection: Bonding, Grounding and Surge Protection Field Performance Assessment of Wind Turbine Lightning Protection Systems The Dynasphere ESE Air Terminal: Issues Deserving Consideration Climatology 1 Three Years of Lightning Impulse Charge Moment Change Measurements in the United States Factors Affecting Lightning Behavior in Various Regions of the United States The Frequency of Lightning Activity in Hokkaido as Observed by the JLDN from 2000 to the Present Lightning Activity in Mesoscale Convective Systems Associated with Different Synoptic Situations over Southern South America Meteorology & Severe Weather 1 Determining Hurricane Formation in the Eastern North Pacific Using the Global Lightning Dataset 360 and the Long-Range Lightning Detection Network Tropical Cyclone Lightning Related to Polarimetric Radar Variables An Analysis of Lightning Holes in Northern Alabama Tornadic Storms Using a Lightning Mapping Array and Dual-Polarization Radar Electrification of Multicell and Supercell Convection Related to Polarimetric Radar Data Polarimetric Radar Analysis of Lightning in an MCC Event on June 15, 2013 Safety & Warnings: Casualty Distributions Lightning Fatalities in Colombia from 2000 to 2009 Mapping Lightning Fatality Risk A Detailed Analysis of Recent Lightning Deaths in the United States An Update to Predicting the Number of U.S. Annual Lightning Fatalities Characteristics of Lightning Casualties and Vulnerability Evaluation Regionalization in China Safety & Warnings: Safety 1 Backcountry Lightning Risk Management The Visual Identification of Lightning-Producing Thunderstorm Clouds NOAA's Efforts to Reduce Lightning Fatalities through Public Education and Awareness Meteorology & Chemistry Applications Kinematic and Microphysical Control of Lightning in Multicell Convection Over Alabama During DC3 Analysis of Ground Network Lightning Data Relative to OTD/LIS to Derive Flash Rates for Use in Determining Lightning NOx Production from Satellite Observations Lightning NOx Production Per Flash Based on OMI NO2 Observations and Ground Network Lightning Data New Architecture of SCALAR Information System Operational Applications of Real-time Lightning Data Coordinated LMS, Balloon-borne Electric Field, and Polarimetric Radar Observations of a Triggered Lightning Flash at Camp Blanding, FL Climatology 2 A European Lightning Density Analysis Using 6 Years of ATDnet Data Development of a Total Lightning Climatology for Oklahoma Using the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array The Characteristics and Nowcasting of CG Lightning Activity During the Spring and Summer Season over Hainan Island, China Safety & Warnings: Safety 2 Backcountry Lightning Risk Reduction - Lightning Crouch Versus Standing with Feet Together Ground Current Lab Exercise Meteorology & Severe Weather 2 Analysis of the Development and Structure of a Severe Storm Leading to the Spawning of a Tornado in Southeast Brazil Lightning Activity Associated to Amazonian Coastal Squall Lines: A Case Study Observations of Turbulent Kinematics and Lightning-Inferred Electric Potential Structure in a Severe Squall Line Safety & Warnings: Aviation Lightning Warning with NLDN Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Data Implications of Lightning Data Uncertainty on Personnel Safety and Operational Efficiency Decisions Establishing Cause and Effect Relationships Between Lightning Flash Data and Airplane Lightning Strike Damage Meteorology: Numerical Modeling Forecasting Lightning Activity by Using an Explicit Charging and Discharging Scheme in WRF-ARW Predicting Lightning, Heavy Precipitation, and Damaging Winds for a Mesoscale Convective System Case Over Southern Brazil The Comparison and the Analysis of the Simulation Results of Two Thunderstorm Cells and a non-Thunderstorm Cell Study of the Correlation between WRF Output Variables and Total Lightning Data in Southeastern Brazil ILDC/ILMC 2012 Archive ILDC Papers Atmospheric Physics Upward Lightning in Brazil Different Strokes: Researching the Unusual Lightning Discharges Associated with Sprites and Jets and Atypical Meteorological Regimes Presence of Continuing Current in Negative Cloud-to-Ground Flashes High-Speed Video and Electric Field Observations of Type Beta-2 Leaders in Negative Lightning: A Manifestation of Recoil Leaders Initiated Inside the Cloud Detection Technology Analysis of Multiple Ground Contacts in Cloud-to-Ground Flashes Using LLS Data: The Impact of Complex Terrain Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of CGLSS II and NLDN Using Ground-Truth Data from Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Recent Work on the Georgia Tech High School Field Mill Project RAMMER Network Observations During Summer 2011 / 2012 Network Performance Performance Evaluation for Lightning Location System Based on Observation of Artificially-Triggered Lightning and Natural Lightning Flashes The NLDN Performance Characteristics: An Update Four Dimensional Lightning Surveillance System Performance Characteristics of Three Distinct Lightning Detection Networks Covering Belgium Meteorological Examples of GLD360 Events Positive Polarity: Misclassification Between Intracloud and Cloud-to-Ground Discharges in the Southern African Lightning Detection Network Evaluation of the New LS7001 Network in the Chubu Region of Japan Future Expansion of the Lightning Surveillance System at the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA Energy A Comparative Wavelet Analysis of the Power Quality Indexes and Lightning Activity Risk of Lightning Strikes on Tall Transmission Line Towers in Amazon Region Tower Studies Triggered Upward Lightning from Towers in Rapid City, South Dakota Characteristics of Upward Leaders from Tall Towers Location Accuracy Evaluation of the Austrian Lightning Location System ALDIS Winter Three-Dimensional Characteristics of Winter Lightning Discharges in the Shonai Area, Japan Three Unusual Upward Positive Lightning Triggered by Other Nearby Lightning Discharge Activity Electric Field Waveforms of Upward Lightning Forming Hot Spots in Winter in Japan ILMC Papers Safety A Brief History of Lightning Safety Campaigns in the United States Recent Studies of Lightning Safety and Demographics Utilizing a Lightning Safety Toolkit for Outdoor Venues Employee Safety and the Role of Lightning and Open Pit Mines in Peru, Tanzania, the Dominican Republic and the USA A New High-Quality Lightning Fatality Database for Lightning Safety Education.pdf A Review of NOAA's Lightning Safety Awareness Campaign and the Impact It Has Produced Across the United States A Statistic Model for the Inter-Annual and Intra-Annual Fatalities from Lightning in the U.S. and Comparison to Other Storm Phenomena Fourteen Points to Lightning Safety Meteorological Case Studies of Lightning Strike Victims in Colorado Is an Open Field Actually Safer from Lightning than a Forest? The Use of Polarimetric Radar Data in Determining Lightning Cessation Severe An Analysis of Overshooting Top Lightning Mapping Array Signatures in Supercell Thunderstorms Characteristics of Lightning Activities in the Hailstorm Using the Data from Two Types of Lightning Detection Systems Lightning Activity in a Hail-Producing Storm Observed with Phased-Array Radar Evaluation of an Improved Storm Cell Identification and Tracking (SCIT) Algorithm Based on DBSCAN Clustering and JPDA Tracking Methods Tropical GLD360 Lightning Observations in Relation to the Madden-Julian Oscillation Lightning Distribution and Eyewall Outbreaks in Tropical Cyclones During Landfall Climatology The Meteorology of Thunderstorms that Produce Positive Sprites, Negative Sprites, or Cloud-to-Ground Lightning with Large Charge Moment Changes Lightning Characteristics in Japan Observed by the JLDN from 2001 to 2010 The Sensitivity of the Thunderstorm Activity in the City of Sao Paulo to Temperature Changes: Predicting the Future Activity for Different Scenarios Lightning Climatology of South Africa with a Special Focus on Lightning Risk Maps Spatial and Temporal Homogeneity of Lightning Archive Lightning Climatology for the State of Colorado Diurnal Variations of NLDN Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in the United States Protection and Risk The Canadian Lightning Risk Display Lightning Warning and Risk Analysis for Human Life Protection in Brazil Colorado High Altitude Lightning Protection A Case Study at 10th Mountain Hut Determining the Lengths of Lightning Strokes Near Kennedy Space Center The Lightning Information as Part of the Risk Prevention Market Identification of the Multiple Ground Contacts Flashes with Lightning Location Systems Lightning Safety of High Consequence Facilities and Products Lightning Detection and Lightning Protection at Military Explosives Storage Facilities Nowcasting Examining the Lightning Characteristics of Several Types of Storms Using the Georgia Tech DBSCAN Based SCIT Algorithm Research on Experiment and Evaluation of Lightning Nowcasting and Warning System Exploitation of Lightning Data for Rain Estimation by Multi-Sensor and Cross-Platform Approach Observational Analysis of Merge Process and Lightning Activity in a Multicell Hailstorm on West Seacoast of Bohai Bay Forecasting A Service Generator to Increase Value of the Global Lightning Data Real Time Stream Influence of Initial Conditions on Lightning Forecasting Using the WRF Model ILDC/ILMC 2010 Archive ILDC 2010 Atmospheric Physics Does the average downward speed of a lightning leader change as it approaches the ground? – An observational approach Electromagnetic fields induced by lightning striking a perfect and imperfect conductive surface Estimates of the Lightning NOx profile in the vicinity of the North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array Comparison of VHF source characteristics for a single-stroke, negative CG flash with continuing current to those for nearby CG and IC flashes High peak current in long continuing luminosity of positive flashes: A case study On the variability of lightning characteristics over thunderstorm lifecycles The discrimination and characteristics of continuing current in positive CG flash in Beijing M-components or cloud-to-ground subsequent strokes? Detection Technology Validation of Vaisala’s Global Lightning Dataset (GLD360) over the continental U.S. Validation of the new GLD360 dataset in Brazil: First results The Four Dimensional Lightning Surveillance System The effect of changes in lightning waveform propagation characteristics on the UK Met Office long range lightning location network (ATDnet) The Georgia Tech high school field mill project Protection And Risk A method to estimate the probability that any individual lightning stroke contacted the surface within any radius of any point Tower Studies Keynote Presentation - LLS performance validation using lightning to towers Influence of the CN tower on the lightning environment in its vicinity Effect of tower initiated lightning on the ground stroke density in the vicinity of the tower Network Performance Analysis of the geographical configuration of a lightning detection network and its influence in the accuracy of lightning location The effect of different configurations of the Brazilian lightning detection network on the cloud-to-ground lightning spatial distribution The CATS software to increase value of the Global Lightning Data Compact intracloud discharges: On estimation of peak currents from measured electromagnetic fields Location accuracy improvements using propagation corrections: A case study of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network Revisiting lightning data of large peak current negative flashes observed by the Brazilian Lightning Location Network Using the Gaussian-based confidence ellipse provided by lightning location systems to create more reliable lightning density maps Comparison between high-speed video recordings of lightning and the detections of the Catalan Lightning Location Network (XDDE) Data storage system for LS7001/LS8000 lightning location networks A new analysis method could locate a faulty or noisy directional sensor in a lightning location network Lightning reporting at 45th Weather Squadron: Recent improvements Energy Applications Lightning detection improvement FALLS brought to Eskom’s Transmission line design Winter Detection efficiency of Tohoku IMPACT sensor network in winter ILMC 2010 Tropical Assessing relations between changes in tropical cyclone intensity and lightning patterns using GIS based methods Convective variability in the North American Monsoon using cloud-to-ground lightning data and high-resolution satellite precipitation data Climatologies Monthly distributions of U.S. NLDN cloud-to-ground lightning Cloud-to-ground lightning in Canada: 1999-2008 Analysis on the spatio-temporal distribution characteristic of cloud-to-ground lightning in Hubei Province Lightning distributions in winter observed by the JLDN Cloud-to-ground lightning in Yukon, Canada during a season of extreme wildfire activity Demographics Lightning-caused casualties in and near dwellings and other buildings Lightning fatalities in Brazil in the last decade Lightning casualties and damages in China from 1997 to 2009 Aviation Wind intensity reconstruction over Italy through LAMPINET lightning data Comparison of forecasting methods in preventive lightning protection – a case study Use of lightning data to improve observations for aeronautical activities GLD360 airport lightning warnings Nowcasting Characteristics of decaying storms during lightning cessation at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station An improved Storm Cell Identification and Tracking (SCIT) algorithm based on DBSCAN clustering and JPDA tracking methods Research on experiment and evaluation of lightning nowcasting and warning system Exploring a physically based tool for lightning and radar in severe and non-severe storms Severe Lightning activity and charge structure of microburst producing storms Research on “jumps” characteristic of lightning activities in a hailstorm A simulation of electrification and lightning in a supercell storm using EnKF to assimilate doppler radar observations A contrast study on the characteristics of the cloud-ground lightning and the surrounding conditions in two typical intense convective weathers occurred in Hubei province The use of an improved SCIT algorithm to investigate lightning characteristics of several severe weather episodes in North Georgia Energy Keeping wind farm crews safe Application of lightning detection in intelligent electric power distribution network Forecasting Total lightning information: An operational perspective A method to identify the better WRF parameterizations set to describe lightning occurrence Evolution of the experimental/automated perfect prog lightning forecasts at the Storm Prediction Center Using timelines of GPS-measured precipitable water in forecasting lightning at Cape Canaveral AFS and Kennedy Space Center Analysis of forecast performance for hit, miss, and false alarm thunderstorm events during ROCS Safety Lightning safety procedures for the public Mechanisms of lightning injury should affect lightning safety messages School lightning safety policies – A look at an incident at the Ocoee schools in Orange County, Florida How lightning safety practices differ in wind energy, sports and construction applications Backcountry lightning risk management Lightning injury continues to be a public health threat internationally ILDC/ILMC 2008 Archive ILDC Detection Technology An overview of cloud-to-ground lightning research in Brazil in the last two decades Potential use of a Bayesian network for discriminating flash type from future GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) data A lightning flash as seen by video, Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array, the National Lightning Detection Network and the Los Alamos Sferics Array The main advances and the most common misleading applications related to lightning location system data Estimation of charge during a lightning flash using electric field measurement Validation Modeling and calibration of Vaisala's operational long range lightning detection network Observing lightning around the globe from the surface Network Performance A method to determine relative stroke detection efficiencies from multiplicity distributions The third generation relative detection efficiency model for the Brazilian lightning detection network (BrasilDAT) VHF total lightning mapping network in Tucson: Very first data acquired Protection & Risk Research and application of active lightning protection technology A low cost lightning protection system and its effectiveness Human Impacts Lightning situation in Romania Recent updates in lightning safety Recent advances in understanding the neurobehavioral aspects of electrical injury Annual rates of lightning fatalities by country Lightning Kills – Play It Safe -- NOAA’s continuing efforts to educate the public on lightning and lightning safety Distribution of lightning injury mechanisms Short notice outdoor lightning risk reduction - evaluating its performance and discussion on why it should not be taught Atmospheric Physics Propagation effects caused by stratified ground on electromagnetic fields of return strokes Detailed storm simulations by a numerical cloud model with electrification and lightning parameterizations Characteristics of vertical e-field waveforms associated with return-strokes on southeastern sea of Kyushu in Japan Properties of negative cloud-to-ground lightning from high speed video observations in Arizona, USA and São Paulo, Brazil The use of impulse charge moment changes to predict sprites in mesoscale convective systems Utility Applications A multi-power line corridor and lightning error ellipse spatial processor for real-time correlator Support system for outages caused by lightning evaluation (SAAD) High Current Critical analysis of LLS detected very large peak current lightning strokes About the peak currents above 300 kA observed by lightning location systems Large current lightning flashes in Canada: 1999-2006 Large peak current cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in southeastern Brazil Safety Warning Systems Total lightning, electrostatic field and meteorological radar applied to lightning hazard warning An empirical lightning cessation forecast scheme at the Cape Canaveral Air Station and the Kennedy Space Center Cloud-to-ground lightning warnings using electric field mill and lightning observations Analysis of surface electric-field contours in relation to cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in air-mass thunderstorms at the Kennedy Space Center Lightning safety research requirements Special Session Honoring Dr. Krider & ILDC 20th Event Comparison of the KSC-ER Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System (CGLSS) and the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) Wide-area soil moisture estimation using the propagation of lightning generated low-frequency electromagnetic signals Positive leader characteristics from high-speed video observations Characteristics of cloud-to-ground lightning in the Great Plains Wave shapes of continuing currents from negative and positive cloud-to-ground flashes observed in southern Arizona Classification of small negative lightning reports at the KSC-ER Observations of cloud-to-ground lightning in the Great Plains ILMC Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity in Romania from 2003 to 2005 Relationship of Transient Upper-Level Troughs to Intraseasonal and Interannual Variability Dependence of CG Lightning Density on Altitude Soil Type and Land Surface Temperature in South of Brazil Dynamical-Statistical Models for Lightning Prediction to 48-hr over Canada and the United States Rainfall Field Reconstruction Over Italy Through LAMPINET Lightning Data VHF Total Lightning Mapping Data Use for Thunderstorm Nowcasting at Weather Forecast Offices Analysis of Inner Core Lightning Rates in 2004-2007 Atlantic and East Pacific Tropical Cyclones Lightning Climatology of South Africa - First Two Years of Operation Lightning Data Assimilation using an Ensemble Kalman Filter Severe Winter Thunderstorm in Poland Case Study Update to the Lightning Probability Forecast Equations at Kennedy Space Center Lightning and Electrical Structure of a Heavy-Precipitation Supercell Storm During TELEX Lightning Detection System for Nowcasting Applications in Santa Catarina State Brazil Analysis of Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Winter Precipitation Total Lightning in a TLE-BEARING Winter Thunderstorm over the Western Mediterranean About Sensitivity of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity to Surface Air Temperature Changes Total Lightning Radar and Satellite Observations of Two Monsoon Thunderstorm Events Lightning Studies at Florida State University The Greensburg Miracle - Where There is Life There is Hope Examples of Winter Lightning Observed by the JLDN Assimilation of Lightning Data Using a Diabatic Digital Filter Within the Rapid Update Cycle A Forecast Cloud-to-Ground Lightning System Based on a Neural Network
ILDC/ILMC 2020 Archive - Abstracts only The conference has been cancelled due to COVID-19 A Comprehensive Climatology of NLDN CG Lightning Flashes in the CONUS A Detailed Analysis of Lightning Deaths in the United States from 2006 through 2019 A modified K-Means method to evaluate location accuracy of lightning networks based on video data A new comprehensive lightning instrumentation system for the mobile launcher 1 A summary of direct and close nearby ligthning strikes Aerosol Effects on Lightning Characteristics over the South China Sea African Centres for Lightinng and Electromagnetics Network ACLENet Progress Report Analyses of Ground Truth Positive Flash Data and Corresponding Lightning Location System Performance Analysis of Clear-Air Lightning using the KMA Operational LINET System Analysis of Clear-Air Lightning using the KMA Operational LINET System Analysis of Lightning Activity Variations over Papua New Guinea Analysis of location errors of the NLDN using lightning strikes to towers Analysis of the Certified Lightning Fatalities and their Relation with the Rainy Seasons in Colombia Application of Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Lightning Geo-Localization Recent Advancements Application of the US National Lightning Detection Network Assessing the Impact of Lightning Data Assimilation for Improving Very short-range Forecasts Application of Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Lightning Geo-Localization Recent Advancements Assessment of the EUCLID System on the Basis of Various Current Pulses Assimilation of merged NLDN GLD360 and GLM lightning data Calibration and Assessment of Broadband VHF Interferometer Systems Characteristics of Lightning Strikes Distribution over the Korean Peninsula Characteristics of the Parent Lightning of Sprites Observed in and Around Florida Characterizing Lightning Activity Across the Caribbean Cloud to Ground Lightning Activity in Colombia using the GLD360 Cloud-to-Ground Lightning During Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Michael (2018) Comparison of Far Electric Field Waveforms D Region Tomography A Technique for Ionospheric Imaging Designing a precision VLF detector with low cost components to enable high density networks Development of Lightning Location Technology for Low-Frequency E-field Detection Array Comparison of Far Electric Field Waveforms Development of Trend Analysis Techniques for Aviation and Range Operations Weather Hazards Discharge processes during downward TGFs at the Telescope Array in Utah Cloud-to-Ground Lightning During Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Michael (2018) Earth Networks Lightning Network Performance Effectiveness of Dissipation Array Systems (DAS) to prevent direct lightning strikes Empirical Determination of VLF Propagation Parameters in the Earth Ionosphere Waveguide Using GLD360 Environmental, kinematic and microphysical conditions leading to anomalous and normal polarity storms Evaluation for the tall object Lightning Detection Ability Evaluation of M Components in Natural Cloud to Ground Lightning FY-4A LMI Observed Lightning Activity in Super Typhoon Mangkhut 2018 Geostationary Lightning Mapper Storms Global Lightning Climatology Estimates using Peak Current Distribution Observations Ground level observations of energetic photons associated with lightning Ground-Truth Instrumentation and Data to Evaluate MERLIN s Tall Structure Detection Efficiency Guidelines for Airport Ramp Closures Due to Lightning Human Lightning Casualties Related to Fishing and Tending Animals Influence of the Canton Tower on Lightning Flashes in its Vicinity using Optical Observation Data Inner-core Lightning and Vertical Structures associated with Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change Insights from Geostationary Lightning Mapper Gridded Products Interactions between the Ionosphere and High Altitude Lightning Observed through GNSS Investigation of Lightning Mass Casualty Incident at Mongoyo School, Uganda Is the Occurrence of Superbolts Influenced by Solar Weather Lightning An Essential Climate Variable and Community Perspective Lightning An Indicator of Gravity Wave Generation lightning behavior during two major flooding events in 2019 in the Houston Metropolitan Area Lightning Characteristics in Relation to Hurricane Intensity Lightning characteristics of typhoon Faxai and typhoon Hagibis observed by Tokyo LMA Lightning Geolocation Using V-POTEKA Lightning Observation Network Lightning in winter observed by the JLDN Lightning Induced Challenges for Industry in General Power Plants, Manufacturing Facilities, etc. Lightning Monitoring Detection and Location for Critical Facilities Lightning Observation Project at INPE Brazil lightning observations from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the International Space station (ISS) Lightning Warnings using Locating Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strikes to the Forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama Maximum Month and Hour of Lightning around the Globe Meteorological context of lightning detected over the Arctic Ocean in summer 2019 Model Study on the Formation of the Charge Structure Modeling and Analysis on the Influence of Electrode Configuration in Simulated Lightning Strike Tests Nowcasting Potentially Severe Thunderstorms Nuevo sistema integral de protección contra las descargas atmosfericas Observation of VHF events occurred with lightning Observations of positive lightning flashes using Cordoba Marx Meter Array Observing ground TGFs with the Telescope Array Surface Detector in correlation with IBPs On the current and electromagnetic fields of Compact Cloud Discharges One Strike, You're Out! A Preliminary Look at Lightning Surrounding MLB Stadiums Optical observation results of negative GC-type strokes Optimizing the Lightning Warning Radii at Spaceport Florida Performance of GLD360 During the Anak Krakatau Explosive Event of December 2018 Performance validation of ground strike point algorithms Predicting the Unique Lightning Climatology of Central Arizona Randomizing Lightning Strike Locations Demonstrates Geological Control of Strike Locations Reassessment of NFPA 780 versus IEC 62305-3 Requirements for Installations in the United States Recent Results Obtained at the Lightning Observatory in Gainesville, Florida Resolving Needles and Fine-Scale Lightning Processes with 100-200 MHz VHF Interferometry Should the evaluation of lighting environment matter when we are making conservation guidelines Simulating the energetic impacts of lightning Solar Induction of Mid Ocean Ridge Circuits Lightning Tells The Story South Africa Spatio-temporal Analysis of Lightning Activities over Pakistan During 2001-2014 Statistics on the occurrence of continuing current in cloud to ground lightning flashes Status and Future Plans for Total Lightning Training in the NOAA National Weather ServiceWS Striking Back Against U.S. Lightning Deaths Supercharging lightning data with distributional regression Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and Energetic Intra-Cloud Lightning in Northeast Colorado TETRA-II ground level observations of energetic photons associated with lightning The Detection of Optical Lightning Superbolts by the FORTE Satellite The First Lightning Research Infrastructure in Uganda The Initial Test Deployment of a 2nd-generation Broadband VHF Interferometer System The Johannesburg Lightning Laboratory The Mechanics of Lightning The Mid-Atlantic Lightning Mapping Array (MALMA) Deployment The Shocking Impact of Lightning on America s Space Program in Florida The Western Mediterranean thunderstorms climatology Time versus distance analysis of lightning activity for some lightning accidents in Austria Toward a Determination of the Extent of Lightning-ignited Forest Fires in the Caribbean Towards the use of lightning for tropical cyclone intensity prediction 1 Transient Response of Surge Protective Devices Upward Leader Currents Measured at the KSC Industrial Area Tower Using Elves Recorded by the Pierre Auger Observatory to Study Argentinian Superbolts Using the GLD360 to provide accurate lightning statistics Using volcanic lightning to monitor eruption plume development during explosive volcanic eruptions Vaisala Charge Transfer overview and initial validation Variability and trends of lightning flashes in future climate change scenarios Why does the Santis Tower have the Highest Observed Number of Fast Pulses per Flash
ILDC/ILMC 2018 Archive Please note that not all authors submitted a final paper for publishing. Lightning Physics 1 Ground Level Observation of Gamma-ray Showers in Coincidence With Downward Lightning Leaders_R. Rabbasi et al.pdf Characteristics of Lightning Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes in Various Geographical Regions_B. Mailyan et al.pdf Tower-initiated Lightning Upward Lightning Triggering Study_T.A. Warner et al.pdf Striking Distance Determined from a New Criterion_S. Visacro et al.pdf Denoising CN Tower Lightning-generated Magnetic Field Return-stroke Signals_N. Ouarda and A. Hussein.pdf Meteorology & Severe Weather 1 Radar Reflectivity Associated with the Enveloped Eyewall Lightning_C. Vagasky.pdf Lightning Protection Power Loads Fast Transfer and Control of Dynamic Lightning_N. Wang et al.pdf Adoption of IEC 62305 as the Basis for One Major U.S. Electric_G.T. Brandon.pdf Using Genetic Algorithms in Designing Substation Lightning Shielding_P. Sarajcev et al.pdf Lightning Physics 2 An Electrostatic Model of Bidirectional Leader Observed_M.D. Tran and V.A. Rakov.pdf Analysis of the Charge Distribution and Leaders_C. Schumann et al.pdf Relationship between aerological stability and charge amount of upward lightning_M. Saito and M. Ishii.pdf Luminosity Characteristics of the CN Tower Lightning Flash Components_I. Sra and A.M. Hussein.pdf On the Propogation Mode of Upward Positive Leaders_M. Guimaraes et al.pdf Self-initiated Versus Nearby-lightning-triggered Upward Flashes_G. Diendorfer et al.pdf Meteorology & Severe Weather 2 Environmental Conditions Producing Thunderstorms_D.R. MacGorman et al.pdf Evaluating the Efficacy of Electrical Field Mills to Predict Lightning Events_D.E. Hill et al.pdf Lightning Detection and Observations Recent CIGRE Work on Lightning Parameters_V. Rakov.pdf A Detailed Look at the Performance Characteristics_D. Zhang et al.pdf Extreme Values of Lightning Parameters_A. Smorgonskiy et al.pdf D Region Ionospheric Imaging Using VLF LF Broadband Sferics_J. McCormick and M.B. Cohen.pdf Recovery of Valuable Incompletely-recorded Return-stroke_L. Perera and A.M. Hussein.pdf Interferometric Radio Imaging of the Initiation and Propagation_S.A. Cummer et al.pdf Lightning Climatologies Characteristics of Lightning Activity in Japan_A. Sugita and M Matsui.pdf An Analysis of Lightning Activity at Santis Tower_A. Mostajabi et al.pdf LLS Technology & Performance Evaluation 1 & 2 Evaluating GLM in South America_C.A. Morales et al.pdf Comparison and Characterisation of ATDnet_S.-E. Enno et al.pdf BrasilDAT Dataset Combining Data from Different Lightning Locating Systems_O. Pinto Jr. and I.R.C.A. Pinto.pdf Toward Lightning Mapping with Long-baseline LF Networks_M.J. Murphy and R.K. Said.pdf Evaluation of systematic location error of GHMLLS_W. Lyu et al.pdf Broadband VHF Interferometry withing the Kennedy Space Center_M.A. Stanley et al.pdf Device for Lightning-current Measurement with Remove Access_L. Araujo et al.pdf Applications of Lightning Data A Hertzsprung-Russel Approach for Taxonomy_A. Friend and K. Dudley.pdf Lightning Impacts on College Football Games_R.L. Holle and K.W. Flanagan.pdf Visualizing Geostationary Lightning Mapper Data_S.D. Rudlosky and M.J. Peterson.pdf ILDC Posters Advances in the RaioSAT Project Detecting Lightning from Space Using a Nanosatellite_K.P. Naccarato et al.pdf Comparison of Two Cloud-to-ground Stroke Datasets – Vaisala and WSI_K. Gray et al.pdf Development of a Lightning Location System Based on Electromagnetic Time Reversal_M. Rubinstein et al.pdf Comparison of Data from the North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array and the GOES-16_J. Trostel et al.pdf The Added Value of Geostationary Lighting_M.J. Peterson and S. Rudlosky.pdf Analysis of Intra-cloud Pulses Detected with Low Frequency Lightning Locating Systems_S. Pedeboy et al.pdf Python in Lightning Detection Network Data_P. Sarajcev and H. Matijasevic.pdf ILMC Posters Forecasting Lightning Initiation Using Dual-Polarization Radar and the Lightning Mapping _S.A. Olsen et al.pdf Forecasting Lightning Cessation Using Dual-Polarization Radar and Lightning Mapping Array _N. Holden et al.pdf Spatial characteristics of lightning relative to supercell kinematics and microphysics_S.M. Stough et al.pdf Evaluation of thunderstorm warnings in Belgium_D. Poelman et al.pdf An Analysis of the Lightning Jump Algorithm Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper Flashes_N. Curtis et al.pdf ENSO Related Interannual Lightning Variability from the Full TRMM LIS_A. Clark and D. Cecil.pdf Monthly GLD360 Lightning Percentages by Continent_R.L. Holle et al.pdf Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Malawi Lightning in January 2017_L. Kalindekafe et al.pdf Volcanic lightning as monitoring tool during 2016-2017 eruption of Bogoslof Volcano AK_C.M. Smith et al.pdf Lightning flash density in Europe on the basis of 10 years of ATDnet data_S.-E. Enno et al.pdf Lightning Fatalities and Injuries in Bangladesh from 1990 through 2017_R.L. Holle et al.pdf African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network ACLENet_M.A. Cooper et al.pdf
ILDC/ILMC 2016 Archive Invited Papers Edward Mansell et al. Using Model Storms to Simulate Lightning.pdf Xiushu Qie et al. Study on Dynamic-Microphysical-Electrical Processes in Severe Thunderstorms.pdf Lightning Physics Manh Tran and Vladimir Rakov. High-speed Video Observation of Bidirectional Leader.pdf Ye Tian et. al. Characteristics of a Bipolar Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash.pdf Christopher Biagi et al. On the Spatial Structure of Electric Fields.pdf Marcelo Saba et al. Lightning Attachment Process to Common Buildings_M. Saba.pdf Michael Oblinski et al. Photo of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Showing Multiple Upward Leaders.pdf A. Chilingarian. Lightnings and Particle Fluxes from Thunderclouds.pdf Jonathan Hill and Carlos. Mata. Comments on Recent Observations of Faintly Luminous Formations.pdf Miguel Guimaraes and Silverio Visacro. On the Features of a Dart-Stepped Leader.pdf Paul Krehbiel et al. NBEs and Lightning Initiation.pdf Takeshi Okuda. Burst of High Energy Radiation from Lightning Discharge.pdf Tower-Initiated & Rocket Triggered Lightning Carina Schumann et al. Characteristics of Positive Cloud-to-Ground Flashes Triggering Upward Flashes.pdf Daohong Wang et al. Bi-directional Discharges Occurring at the Tip of Dart Stepped Leaders.pdf Gaopeng Lu et al. Bursts of Magnetic Pulses from Upward Positive Leader.pdf Gaopeng Lu et al. Characterization of Initial Current Pulses in Rocket-Triggered Lightning.pdf Mohammed Azadifar et al. Simultaneous Current and Distant Electric Field Waveforms.pdf Yanan Zhu et al. Unusual Electric Field Waveforms Produced by Negative Lightning Strokes.pdf Safety & Warnings: Casualty Distributions John Jensenius, Jr. A Detailed Analysis of Lightning Deaths in the US.pdf Richard Tushemereirwe et al. The Most Effective Methods for Delivering Severe Weather Early Warnings.pdf Ron Holle. Number of Documented Global Lightning Fatalities.pdf William Roeder. Changes in U.S. Annual Lightning Fatalities from 1990-2015.pdf Meteorology & Severe Weather Dong Zheng et al. Characteristics of the Two Active Stages of Lightning.pdf John Trostel et al. North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array - June 24, 2015 Microburst Case Study.pdf Lan Tao et al. Characteristics Analysis of a Nocturnal Bow Echo.pdf Ron Holle and Martin Murphy. Lightning Over Three Large Tropical Lakes.pdf Stephane Pedeboy et al. First Results on Severe Storms Prediction Based on the French LLS.pdf Tatiana Kudrinskaya et al. Experimental Studies of the Behavior of the Electric Field.pdf Xiaoyuan Yi et al. Evolution of the Four Heavy Rainfall Cells Structure.pdf Donald MacGorman and Elizabeth DiGangi. Lightning in Secondary Convection.pdf Dongxia Liu and Xiushu Qie. Radar and Lightning Observations of a Supercell Storm.pdf Evan Ruzanski and V. Chandrasekar. An Investigation of Radar-Derived Precursors to Lightning Initiation_E. Ruzanski.pdf Greg Lucas et al. Variability of Surface Electric Fields.pdf Wenjuan Zhang et al. Characteristics of Lightning Activity in Tropical Cyclones.pdf Continental/Global LLS Performance Amitabh Nag et al. Update to the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network.pdf Daile Zhang et al. Evaluation of the National Lightning Detection Network Upgrade Using the Lightning Imaging Sensor.pdf Dieter Poelman et al. Determining Lightning Outliers Based on Belgian Radar Data to Evaluate the Performance of EUCLID.pdf Ryan Said and Martin Murphy. GLD360 Upgrade Performance Analysis and Applications.pdf Sven-Erik Enno et al. ATDnet Detection Efficiency and Cloud Lightning Detection Characteristics.pdf Maikihisa Saito and Masaru Hill. Attenuation Effect of Lossy Ground.pdf Lightning and Wind Turbines Alexander Smorgonskiy et al. On the Estimation of the Number of Upward Flashes From Wind Turbines.pdf Stephan Vogel et al. Lightning Attachment Estimation to Wind Turbines.pdf Meteorology: Numerical Modeling A. A. Bulatov et al. A Nowcasting System for Lightning/Thunderstorms in the Upper Volga Region.pdf Fei Wang et al. Spatial Relationship between Non-inductive Charging Region and Updraft.pdf Rosangela Barreto Biasi Gin et al. Atmospheric Parameters and Lightning Flash Activity Case studies.pdf Lightning Occurance Akiko Sugita and Michihiro Matsui. Lightning Occurrence Characteristics in 2015 in Japan.pdf Jianhua Dai et al. Characteristics of the Distribution-Initiation-Motion-and Evolution.pdf Richard Orville and Gary Huffines. Global Warming Is the Annual Lightning Strike Maximum Migrating to Higher Latitudes.pdf Ron Holle and Ken Cummins. Seasonal Lightning Distributions over North America.pdf LLS Technology & Performance Evaluation Dongshuai Li et al. Location Accuracy Evaluation of ToA-Based Lightning Location Systems.pdf Jonathan Hill et al. Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of MERLIN and NLDN.pdf Kleber Naccarato et al. Total Lightning Flash Detection from Space.pdf Wolfgang Schulz et al. Relationship Between Average Number of Sensors and Detection Efficiency.pdf Yanan Zhu et al. Study of NLDN Responses to Cloud Discharge Activity.pdf Yijun Zhang et al. Performance Characteristics of the LLS of Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau After the Upgrade in 2012.pdf Weital Lu et al. Total-sky Lightning Channel Imager.pdf Yongming Zhang et al. On the Value of Using a 3-axis EB Vector Sensor.pdf Yongming Zhang et al. Small UAV Airborne Electric Field Measurements.pdf Mingyuan Liu et al. A Short-Baseline Lightning VHF Location System in SHATLE.pdf Zhu Baoyou et al. The Jianghuai Area Sferic Array_.pdf Utility & Forecast Applications of Lightning Bob Kochtubajda et al. Lightning and Weather Associated with the Extreme 2014 Wildfire Season.pdf Chong Tong et al. Application of Real Time Lightning Detection for Smart Gird Distribution Systems.pdf Fred Elmendorf. OSS Tools for Automated Event Analysis and Lightning Data Correlation.pdf Paul Sopko et al. Spatial Products Available for Identifying Areas of Likely Wildfire Ignitions.pdf Richard Gamble and Theo Laughner. Lightning Studies To Improve Power Quality.pdf Safety & Warnings John Jensenius, Jr. NOAAs Lightning Safety Awareness Efforts.pdf Lyn Mainwaring et al. Lightning Safety Efforts in Canada 2009 to 2015.pdf Martin Murphy and Ryan Said. Preliminary Analysis of Lightning Warnings in and near the Rocky Mountains.pdf Ron Holle. Lightning-caused Deaths and Injuries in Agriculture.pdf Stephane Schmitt. Thunderstorm Warning Systems - Why Lightning Detection Networks Should be Considered.pdf
ILDC/ILMC 2014 Archive ILDC Papers Keynote Presentation From Frogs to a National Network Lightning Physics Optical Evidences of the Inception Mechanisms of Natural Bipolar Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Sensitive Measurement of Lightning Current and Charge Motion Using Coherent Averaging of Low Frequency Magnetic Field Observations Analysis of Forked Strokes Characteristics over Southeastern Brazil During the Summer Season of 2013 Oceanic Storm Characteristics off the Kennedy Space Center Coast Estimates of Recoil Leaders Peak Currents Based on High-Speed Video Observations An ELF Signal Associated with a Positive GC Lightning Event in Winter Tower-Initiated & Rocket Triggered Lightning Recent Measurements and Results Obtained at Morro do cachimbo Station An Intrinsic Fiber-Optic Sensor for Structure Lightning Current Measurement Characteristics of Upward Flashes in Brazil LLS Technology & Data 1 The Need for an International Standard on Lightning Location Systems Performances of the Lightning Ground Contacts Detection Algorithm Based on LLS Data LLS Technology & Data 2 An Update on the Performance Characteristics of the NLDN.pdf EUCLID Located Strokes to the Gaisberg Tower - Accuracy of Location and its Assigned Confidence Ellipse Comparison of Directly Measured Current and JLDN Data Associated with Lightning Strokes Hitting Tokyo Skytree (R) Lightning Interaction with Wind Farms Overview of the Kansas Windfarm2013 Field Program Meteorological Aspects of Two Modes of Lightning Triggered Upward Lightning (LTUL) Events in Sprite-Producing MCSs Technology Enhancements Recent Evolution of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network Enhanced Cloud Lightning Performance of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network Following the 2013 Upgrade Evaluating Location Accuracy of Lightning Location Networks Using Tall Towers Performance of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network during the Kansas Windfarm2012 and 2013 Field Programs Utility & Forensic Applications of Lightning Closing the Gap - Using Open Source Software to Make the Connection Between Lightning and Power System Data Research on Experiment of Lightning Nowcasting and Warning System in Electric Power Department of HeNan Examining the Lightning Polarity of Lightning Caused Wildfires Regional LLS Performance Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of CGLSS and NLDN Based on Two Years of Ground-Truth Data from Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Evaluation of the New LS7001 Network in the Chubu Region of Japan after Site-Error Corrections An Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of the Guangdon-Hongkong-Macau Lightning Location System Continental/Global LLS Performance Validation of the EUCLID LLS During HyMeX SOP1 Calibration of the GLD360 Against Rocket-Triggered Lightning Data.pdf Method to Improve Location Accuracy of the GLD360 Evaluating Ground-Based Lightning Detection Networks Using TRMM/LIS Observations Comparison of GLD360/Meteorage over France Six Years of Sferics Timing and Ranging NETwork - STARNET: A Lightning Climatology over South America ILMC Papers Lightning Protection Three Essentials of Lightning Protection: Bonding, Grounding and Surge Protection Field Performance Assessment of Wind Turbine Lightning Protection Systems The Dynasphere ESE Air Terminal: Issues Deserving Consideration Climatology 1 Three Years of Lightning Impulse Charge Moment Change Measurements in the United States Factors Affecting Lightning Behavior in Various Regions of the United States The Frequency of Lightning Activity in Hokkaido as Observed by the JLDN from 2000 to the Present Lightning Activity in Mesoscale Convective Systems Associated with Different Synoptic Situations over Southern South America Meteorology & Severe Weather 1 Determining Hurricane Formation in the Eastern North Pacific Using the Global Lightning Dataset 360 and the Long-Range Lightning Detection Network Tropical Cyclone Lightning Related to Polarimetric Radar Variables An Analysis of Lightning Holes in Northern Alabama Tornadic Storms Using a Lightning Mapping Array and Dual-Polarization Radar Electrification of Multicell and Supercell Convection Related to Polarimetric Radar Data Polarimetric Radar Analysis of Lightning in an MCC Event on June 15, 2013 Safety & Warnings: Casualty Distributions Lightning Fatalities in Colombia from 2000 to 2009 Mapping Lightning Fatality Risk A Detailed Analysis of Recent Lightning Deaths in the United States An Update to Predicting the Number of U.S. Annual Lightning Fatalities Characteristics of Lightning Casualties and Vulnerability Evaluation Regionalization in China Safety & Warnings: Safety 1 Backcountry Lightning Risk Management The Visual Identification of Lightning-Producing Thunderstorm Clouds NOAA's Efforts to Reduce Lightning Fatalities through Public Education and Awareness Meteorology & Chemistry Applications Kinematic and Microphysical Control of Lightning in Multicell Convection Over Alabama During DC3 Analysis of Ground Network Lightning Data Relative to OTD/LIS to Derive Flash Rates for Use in Determining Lightning NOx Production from Satellite Observations Lightning NOx Production Per Flash Based on OMI NO2 Observations and Ground Network Lightning Data New Architecture of SCALAR Information System Operational Applications of Real-time Lightning Data Coordinated LMS, Balloon-borne Electric Field, and Polarimetric Radar Observations of a Triggered Lightning Flash at Camp Blanding, FL Climatology 2 A European Lightning Density Analysis Using 6 Years of ATDnet Data Development of a Total Lightning Climatology for Oklahoma Using the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array The Characteristics and Nowcasting of CG Lightning Activity During the Spring and Summer Season over Hainan Island, China Safety & Warnings: Safety 2 Backcountry Lightning Risk Reduction - Lightning Crouch Versus Standing with Feet Together Ground Current Lab Exercise Meteorology & Severe Weather 2 Analysis of the Development and Structure of a Severe Storm Leading to the Spawning of a Tornado in Southeast Brazil Lightning Activity Associated to Amazonian Coastal Squall Lines: A Case Study Observations of Turbulent Kinematics and Lightning-Inferred Electric Potential Structure in a Severe Squall Line Safety & Warnings: Aviation Lightning Warning with NLDN Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Data Implications of Lightning Data Uncertainty on Personnel Safety and Operational Efficiency Decisions Establishing Cause and Effect Relationships Between Lightning Flash Data and Airplane Lightning Strike Damage Meteorology: Numerical Modeling Forecasting Lightning Activity by Using an Explicit Charging and Discharging Scheme in WRF-ARW Predicting Lightning, Heavy Precipitation, and Damaging Winds for a Mesoscale Convective System Case Over Southern Brazil The Comparison and the Analysis of the Simulation Results of Two Thunderstorm Cells and a non-Thunderstorm Cell Study of the Correlation between WRF Output Variables and Total Lightning Data in Southeastern Brazil
ILDC/ILMC 2012 Archive ILDC Papers Atmospheric Physics Upward Lightning in Brazil Different Strokes: Researching the Unusual Lightning Discharges Associated with Sprites and Jets and Atypical Meteorological Regimes Presence of Continuing Current in Negative Cloud-to-Ground Flashes High-Speed Video and Electric Field Observations of Type Beta-2 Leaders in Negative Lightning: A Manifestation of Recoil Leaders Initiated Inside the Cloud Detection Technology Analysis of Multiple Ground Contacts in Cloud-to-Ground Flashes Using LLS Data: The Impact of Complex Terrain Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of CGLSS II and NLDN Using Ground-Truth Data from Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Recent Work on the Georgia Tech High School Field Mill Project RAMMER Network Observations During Summer 2011 / 2012 Network Performance Performance Evaluation for Lightning Location System Based on Observation of Artificially-Triggered Lightning and Natural Lightning Flashes The NLDN Performance Characteristics: An Update Four Dimensional Lightning Surveillance System Performance Characteristics of Three Distinct Lightning Detection Networks Covering Belgium Meteorological Examples of GLD360 Events Positive Polarity: Misclassification Between Intracloud and Cloud-to-Ground Discharges in the Southern African Lightning Detection Network Evaluation of the New LS7001 Network in the Chubu Region of Japan Future Expansion of the Lightning Surveillance System at the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA Energy A Comparative Wavelet Analysis of the Power Quality Indexes and Lightning Activity Risk of Lightning Strikes on Tall Transmission Line Towers in Amazon Region Tower Studies Triggered Upward Lightning from Towers in Rapid City, South Dakota Characteristics of Upward Leaders from Tall Towers Location Accuracy Evaluation of the Austrian Lightning Location System ALDIS Winter Three-Dimensional Characteristics of Winter Lightning Discharges in the Shonai Area, Japan Three Unusual Upward Positive Lightning Triggered by Other Nearby Lightning Discharge Activity Electric Field Waveforms of Upward Lightning Forming Hot Spots in Winter in Japan ILMC Papers Safety A Brief History of Lightning Safety Campaigns in the United States Recent Studies of Lightning Safety and Demographics Utilizing a Lightning Safety Toolkit for Outdoor Venues Employee Safety and the Role of Lightning and Open Pit Mines in Peru, Tanzania, the Dominican Republic and the USA A New High-Quality Lightning Fatality Database for Lightning Safety Education.pdf A Review of NOAA's Lightning Safety Awareness Campaign and the Impact It Has Produced Across the United States A Statistic Model for the Inter-Annual and Intra-Annual Fatalities from Lightning in the U.S. and Comparison to Other Storm Phenomena Fourteen Points to Lightning Safety Meteorological Case Studies of Lightning Strike Victims in Colorado Is an Open Field Actually Safer from Lightning than a Forest? The Use of Polarimetric Radar Data in Determining Lightning Cessation Severe An Analysis of Overshooting Top Lightning Mapping Array Signatures in Supercell Thunderstorms Characteristics of Lightning Activities in the Hailstorm Using the Data from Two Types of Lightning Detection Systems Lightning Activity in a Hail-Producing Storm Observed with Phased-Array Radar Evaluation of an Improved Storm Cell Identification and Tracking (SCIT) Algorithm Based on DBSCAN Clustering and JPDA Tracking Methods Tropical GLD360 Lightning Observations in Relation to the Madden-Julian Oscillation Lightning Distribution and Eyewall Outbreaks in Tropical Cyclones During Landfall Climatology The Meteorology of Thunderstorms that Produce Positive Sprites, Negative Sprites, or Cloud-to-Ground Lightning with Large Charge Moment Changes Lightning Characteristics in Japan Observed by the JLDN from 2001 to 2010 The Sensitivity of the Thunderstorm Activity in the City of Sao Paulo to Temperature Changes: Predicting the Future Activity for Different Scenarios Lightning Climatology of South Africa with a Special Focus on Lightning Risk Maps Spatial and Temporal Homogeneity of Lightning Archive Lightning Climatology for the State of Colorado Diurnal Variations of NLDN Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in the United States Protection and Risk The Canadian Lightning Risk Display Lightning Warning and Risk Analysis for Human Life Protection in Brazil Colorado High Altitude Lightning Protection A Case Study at 10th Mountain Hut Determining the Lengths of Lightning Strokes Near Kennedy Space Center The Lightning Information as Part of the Risk Prevention Market Identification of the Multiple Ground Contacts Flashes with Lightning Location Systems Lightning Safety of High Consequence Facilities and Products Lightning Detection and Lightning Protection at Military Explosives Storage Facilities Nowcasting Examining the Lightning Characteristics of Several Types of Storms Using the Georgia Tech DBSCAN Based SCIT Algorithm Research on Experiment and Evaluation of Lightning Nowcasting and Warning System Exploitation of Lightning Data for Rain Estimation by Multi-Sensor and Cross-Platform Approach Observational Analysis of Merge Process and Lightning Activity in a Multicell Hailstorm on West Seacoast of Bohai Bay Forecasting A Service Generator to Increase Value of the Global Lightning Data Real Time Stream Influence of Initial Conditions on Lightning Forecasting Using the WRF Model
ILDC/ILMC 2010 Archive ILDC 2010 Atmospheric Physics Does the average downward speed of a lightning leader change as it approaches the ground? – An observational approach Electromagnetic fields induced by lightning striking a perfect and imperfect conductive surface Estimates of the Lightning NOx profile in the vicinity of the North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array Comparison of VHF source characteristics for a single-stroke, negative CG flash with continuing current to those for nearby CG and IC flashes High peak current in long continuing luminosity of positive flashes: A case study On the variability of lightning characteristics over thunderstorm lifecycles The discrimination and characteristics of continuing current in positive CG flash in Beijing M-components or cloud-to-ground subsequent strokes? Detection Technology Validation of Vaisala’s Global Lightning Dataset (GLD360) over the continental U.S. Validation of the new GLD360 dataset in Brazil: First results The Four Dimensional Lightning Surveillance System The effect of changes in lightning waveform propagation characteristics on the UK Met Office long range lightning location network (ATDnet) The Georgia Tech high school field mill project Protection And Risk A method to estimate the probability that any individual lightning stroke contacted the surface within any radius of any point Tower Studies Keynote Presentation - LLS performance validation using lightning to towers Influence of the CN tower on the lightning environment in its vicinity Effect of tower initiated lightning on the ground stroke density in the vicinity of the tower Network Performance Analysis of the geographical configuration of a lightning detection network and its influence in the accuracy of lightning location The effect of different configurations of the Brazilian lightning detection network on the cloud-to-ground lightning spatial distribution The CATS software to increase value of the Global Lightning Data Compact intracloud discharges: On estimation of peak currents from measured electromagnetic fields Location accuracy improvements using propagation corrections: A case study of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network Revisiting lightning data of large peak current negative flashes observed by the Brazilian Lightning Location Network Using the Gaussian-based confidence ellipse provided by lightning location systems to create more reliable lightning density maps Comparison between high-speed video recordings of lightning and the detections of the Catalan Lightning Location Network (XDDE) Data storage system for LS7001/LS8000 lightning location networks A new analysis method could locate a faulty or noisy directional sensor in a lightning location network Lightning reporting at 45th Weather Squadron: Recent improvements Energy Applications Lightning detection improvement FALLS brought to Eskom’s Transmission line design Winter Detection efficiency of Tohoku IMPACT sensor network in winter ILMC 2010 Tropical Assessing relations between changes in tropical cyclone intensity and lightning patterns using GIS based methods Convective variability in the North American Monsoon using cloud-to-ground lightning data and high-resolution satellite precipitation data Climatologies Monthly distributions of U.S. NLDN cloud-to-ground lightning Cloud-to-ground lightning in Canada: 1999-2008 Analysis on the spatio-temporal distribution characteristic of cloud-to-ground lightning in Hubei Province Lightning distributions in winter observed by the JLDN Cloud-to-ground lightning in Yukon, Canada during a season of extreme wildfire activity Demographics Lightning-caused casualties in and near dwellings and other buildings Lightning fatalities in Brazil in the last decade Lightning casualties and damages in China from 1997 to 2009 Aviation Wind intensity reconstruction over Italy through LAMPINET lightning data Comparison of forecasting methods in preventive lightning protection – a case study Use of lightning data to improve observations for aeronautical activities GLD360 airport lightning warnings Nowcasting Characteristics of decaying storms during lightning cessation at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station An improved Storm Cell Identification and Tracking (SCIT) algorithm based on DBSCAN clustering and JPDA tracking methods Research on experiment and evaluation of lightning nowcasting and warning system Exploring a physically based tool for lightning and radar in severe and non-severe storms Severe Lightning activity and charge structure of microburst producing storms Research on “jumps” characteristic of lightning activities in a hailstorm A simulation of electrification and lightning in a supercell storm using EnKF to assimilate doppler radar observations A contrast study on the characteristics of the cloud-ground lightning and the surrounding conditions in two typical intense convective weathers occurred in Hubei province The use of an improved SCIT algorithm to investigate lightning characteristics of several severe weather episodes in North Georgia Energy Keeping wind farm crews safe Application of lightning detection in intelligent electric power distribution network Forecasting Total lightning information: An operational perspective A method to identify the better WRF parameterizations set to describe lightning occurrence Evolution of the experimental/automated perfect prog lightning forecasts at the Storm Prediction Center Using timelines of GPS-measured precipitable water in forecasting lightning at Cape Canaveral AFS and Kennedy Space Center Analysis of forecast performance for hit, miss, and false alarm thunderstorm events during ROCS Safety Lightning safety procedures for the public Mechanisms of lightning injury should affect lightning safety messages School lightning safety policies – A look at an incident at the Ocoee schools in Orange County, Florida How lightning safety practices differ in wind energy, sports and construction applications Backcountry lightning risk management Lightning injury continues to be a public health threat internationally
ILDC/ILMC 2008 Archive ILDC Detection Technology An overview of cloud-to-ground lightning research in Brazil in the last two decades Potential use of a Bayesian network for discriminating flash type from future GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) data A lightning flash as seen by video, Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array, the National Lightning Detection Network and the Los Alamos Sferics Array The main advances and the most common misleading applications related to lightning location system data Estimation of charge during a lightning flash using electric field measurement Validation Modeling and calibration of Vaisala's operational long range lightning detection network Observing lightning around the globe from the surface Network Performance A method to determine relative stroke detection efficiencies from multiplicity distributions The third generation relative detection efficiency model for the Brazilian lightning detection network (BrasilDAT) VHF total lightning mapping network in Tucson: Very first data acquired Protection & Risk Research and application of active lightning protection technology A low cost lightning protection system and its effectiveness Human Impacts Lightning situation in Romania Recent updates in lightning safety Recent advances in understanding the neurobehavioral aspects of electrical injury Annual rates of lightning fatalities by country Lightning Kills – Play It Safe -- NOAA’s continuing efforts to educate the public on lightning and lightning safety Distribution of lightning injury mechanisms Short notice outdoor lightning risk reduction - evaluating its performance and discussion on why it should not be taught Atmospheric Physics Propagation effects caused by stratified ground on electromagnetic fields of return strokes Detailed storm simulations by a numerical cloud model with electrification and lightning parameterizations Characteristics of vertical e-field waveforms associated with return-strokes on southeastern sea of Kyushu in Japan Properties of negative cloud-to-ground lightning from high speed video observations in Arizona, USA and São Paulo, Brazil The use of impulse charge moment changes to predict sprites in mesoscale convective systems Utility Applications A multi-power line corridor and lightning error ellipse spatial processor for real-time correlator Support system for outages caused by lightning evaluation (SAAD) High Current Critical analysis of LLS detected very large peak current lightning strokes About the peak currents above 300 kA observed by lightning location systems Large current lightning flashes in Canada: 1999-2006 Large peak current cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in southeastern Brazil Safety Warning Systems Total lightning, electrostatic field and meteorological radar applied to lightning hazard warning An empirical lightning cessation forecast scheme at the Cape Canaveral Air Station and the Kennedy Space Center Cloud-to-ground lightning warnings using electric field mill and lightning observations Analysis of surface electric-field contours in relation to cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in air-mass thunderstorms at the Kennedy Space Center Lightning safety research requirements Special Session Honoring Dr. Krider & ILDC 20th Event Comparison of the KSC-ER Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System (CGLSS) and the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) Wide-area soil moisture estimation using the propagation of lightning generated low-frequency electromagnetic signals Positive leader characteristics from high-speed video observations Characteristics of cloud-to-ground lightning in the Great Plains Wave shapes of continuing currents from negative and positive cloud-to-ground flashes observed in southern Arizona Classification of small negative lightning reports at the KSC-ER Observations of cloud-to-ground lightning in the Great Plains ILMC Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity in Romania from 2003 to 2005 Relationship of Transient Upper-Level Troughs to Intraseasonal and Interannual Variability Dependence of CG Lightning Density on Altitude Soil Type and Land Surface Temperature in South of Brazil Dynamical-Statistical Models for Lightning Prediction to 48-hr over Canada and the United States Rainfall Field Reconstruction Over Italy Through LAMPINET Lightning Data VHF Total Lightning Mapping Data Use for Thunderstorm Nowcasting at Weather Forecast Offices Analysis of Inner Core Lightning Rates in 2004-2007 Atlantic and East Pacific Tropical Cyclones Lightning Climatology of South Africa - First Two Years of Operation Lightning Data Assimilation using an Ensemble Kalman Filter Severe Winter Thunderstorm in Poland Case Study Update to the Lightning Probability Forecast Equations at Kennedy Space Center Lightning and Electrical Structure of a Heavy-Precipitation Supercell Storm During TELEX Lightning Detection System for Nowcasting Applications in Santa Catarina State Brazil Analysis of Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Winter Precipitation Total Lightning in a TLE-BEARING Winter Thunderstorm over the Western Mediterranean About Sensitivity of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity to Surface Air Temperature Changes Total Lightning Radar and Satellite Observations of Two Monsoon Thunderstorm Events Lightning Studies at Florida State University The Greensburg Miracle - Where There is Life There is Hope Examples of Winter Lightning Observed by the JLDN Assimilation of Lightning Data Using a Diabatic Digital Filter Within the Rapid Update Cycle A Forecast Cloud-to-Ground Lightning System Based on a Neural Network
