A critical review of nonconventional approaches to lightning protection

MA Uman, VA Rakov - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
The conventional technique for the lightning protection of structures is described in the US
National Standard, NFPA 780, and in many other national and international lightning …

An overview of the lightning and atmospheric electricity observations collected in southern France during the HYdrological cycle in Mediterranean EXperiment …

E Defer, JP Pinty, S Coquillat, JM Martin… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - amt.copernicus.org
The PEACH project (Projet en Electricité Atmosphérique pour la Campagne HyMeX–the
Atmospheric Electricity Project of the HyMeX Program) is the atmospheric electricity …

Multilevel measurement of the electric field underneath a thundercloud: 2. Dynamical evolution of a ground space charge layer

S Soula, S Chauzy - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
In August 1989 the electric field was measured below a thunderstorm at Kennedy Space
Center for more than 1 hour at several levels up to 800 m. No substantial precipitation …

Multilevel measurement of the electric field underneath a thundercloud: 1. A new system and the associated data processing

S Chauzy, JC Médale, S Prieur… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
In order to study the formation and evolution of the charge layer created by a corona at the
ground underneath thunderclouds, we have developed a new system of electric field …

Electric field enlarges raindrops beneath electrified clouds: Observational evidence

D Mudiar, SD Pawar, V Gopalakrishnan… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous measurements of cloud electric field and raindrop size at the Earth's surface
have been analyzed to investigate an anticipated relation between the two cloud …

Corona processes and lightning attachment: The effect of wind during thunderstorms

EM Bazelyan, YP Raizer, NL Aleksandrov… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - Elsevier
A simple model of a glow corona occurring near the tip of a grounded electrode in a
thundercloud electric field that can be enhanced by an approaching downward leader has …

Initiation and development of first lightning leader: The effects of coronae and position of lightning origin

NL Aleksandrov, EM Bazelyan, YP Raizer - Atmospheric research, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper addresses, by means of numerical simulations, the issues of lightning initiation
near tall, grounded objects and lightning development in the cloud-to-ground gap. Taken …

Determination of the electric field intensity and space charge density versus height prior to triggered lightning

CJ Biagi, MA Uman, J Gopalakrishnan… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We infer the vertical profiles of space charge density and electric field intensity above
ground by comparing modeling and measurements of the ground‐level electric field …

Prodigious amounts of hydrogen oxides generated by corona discharges on tree leaves

JM Jenkins, GA Olson, PJ McFarland… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Prodigious amounts of the hydroxyl radical (OH) are generated in the laboratory on tree
leaves by corona discharges, which also occur on trees during thunderstorms. Production …

Transfer of electrical space charge from corona between ground and thundercloud: Measurements and modeling

S Soula - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of the vertical electric field profile deduced from simultaneous field
measurements at several levels below a thundercloud shows the development of a space …