Lightning: Principles, Instruments and Applications

Overview

• Current understanding of lightning phenomena
• Experimental observations and theoretical explanations of lightning
• Importance of lightning in meteorology and atmospheric science
• The reader gets a comprehensive view about lightning effects, even on very complex topics which are not yet fully understood and remain subject to further research

About this book

Lightning represents a natural phenomenon of substantial interest. Due to its complex nature, research continues in many countries and reveals amazing results. Lightning is actively observed because of its relevance to Earth climate and air composition in addition to the classical aspects of related human fatalities and damage to forests, buildings, power lines, aircraft, structures and electronic devices.

In this volume, the most important contemporary questions on lightning are addressed and analyzed under many experimental and theoretical aspects. Lightning detection techniques using ground-based and space-borne methods are described, along with network engineering and statistical analysis.

Contributions detail research on atmospheric electricity, cloud physics, lightning physics, modeling of electrical storms and middle atmospheric events. Special phenomena such as triggered lightning and sprite observations are examined. Lightning-induced nitrogen oxides and their effects on atmospheric chemistry and climate are discussed.

Each topic is presented by international experts in the field. Topics include:

* air chemistry

* convective storms

* infrasound from lightning

* lightning and climate change

* lightning and precipitation

* lightning and radiation

* lightning and supercells

* lightning and thunderstorms

* lightning detection

* lightning from space

* lighting protection

* lightning return strokes

* observations and interpretations

* spatial distribution and frequency

* triggered lightning

* weather extremes

Table of contents
(27 chapters)

• Front Matter
  Pages I-XV
• Present Understanding of the Lightning Return Stroke
  Pages 1-21
• Triggered Lightning
  Pages 23-56
• Electric Field and Charge Structure in Lightning-Producing Clouds
  Pages 57-82
• Characteristics of Lightning in Supercells
  Pages 83-114
• LINET – An International VLF/LF Lightning Detection Network in Europe
  Pages 115-140
• LAMPINET – Lightning Detection in Italy
  Pages 141-159
• Lightning Detection in Spain: The Particular Case of Catalonia
  Pages 161-185
• Spatial Distribution and Frequency of Thunderstorms and Lightning in Australia
  Pages 187-207
• Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Observations in Brazil
  Pages 209-229

• Observation and Interpretation of Lightning Flashes with Electromagnetic Lightning Mapper
  Pages 231-251
• Nowcasting of Thunderstorms Using VHF Measurements
  Pages 253-270
• Optical Detection of Lightning from Space
  Pages 271-286
• Space- and Ground-Based Studies of Lightning Signatures
  Pages 287-307
• Lightning Measurements from Satellites and Significance for Storms in the Mediterranean
  Pages 309-329
• Energetic Radiation and Lightning
  Pages 331-346
• Schumann Resonance Signatures of Global Lightning Activity
  Pages 347-386
• The Meteorological and Electrical Structure of TLE-Producing Convective Storms
  Pages 387-415
• Infrasound from Lightning and Sprites
  Pages 417-432

• Lightning in the Mediterranean in Relation with Cloud Microphysical Parameters
  Pages 433-446
• Lightning and Precipitation
  Pages 447-463
• Comparative Analysis of Flash and Radar Characteristics of Thunderstorm Cells
  Pages 465-486
• Lightning Characteristics of Extreme Weather Events
  Pages 487-507
• Flash Cells in Thunderstorms
  Pages 509-520
• Thunderstorms, Lightning and Climate Change
  Pages 521-535
• Impact of Lightning on Air Chemistry and Climate
  Pages 537-549
• Lightning and NO _X Production in Global Models
  Pages 551-571
• Lightning Protection of Structures
  Pages 573-592
• Back Matter
  Pages 593-641

About the Editors

Hans D. Betz received his PhD in Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He performed research and teaching at the Physics Department of MIT at Boston, USA, thereafter at the Physics Department of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. Major fields of research covered laser, atomic and nuclear physics, and atmospheric electricity.

Ulrich Schumann is a prominent German atmospheric scientist and researcher, known for his work in the field of atmospheric physics and chemistry. His research has primarily focused on topics like climate change, atmospheric chemistry, and the interactions between aerosols, clouds, and radiation in Earth’s atmosphere.

Pierre Laroche is indeed an expert in the field of lightning research, and he is known for his contributions to the study of lightning, particularly in the context of understanding its physics and the instruments used to study it. Laroche played a significant role in curating the content of the book, gathering expert insights, and making complex lightning science accessible to a broad audience.

ISBN:- 978-1-4020-9078-3

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