ILDC 2006

Keynote Presentations
Recent upgrades to the Brazilian Integrated Lightning Detection Network (1262 KB)
The Canadian Lightning Detection Network - Web portal based products, services and indicators of real time performance measurement (3002 KB)
Utility Applications - Session 1A
Application of arrester to double circuit transmission line to enhance lightning performance and introduction about the obtained lightning waveforms by monitoring systems (811 KB)
Data correlation of a lightning detection network to the telecom supervision system of a power company and evaluation of improvements on the LPS of a radio station (685 KB)
Multiscale analysis of lightning strike maps (1956 KB)
The importance of reliable measurements of lightning currents to electric power companies (1060 KB)
Human Safety - Session 1B
Suspension of a University of Arizona football game due to lightning (3489 KB)
Lightning activities in East Africa (545 KB)
Overview of global lightning protection codes and standards (443 KB)
Lightning Network Validation - Session 2A
Investigation on LEMP observed by JLDN (559 KB)
LLS accuracy improvements by measurements collected by RLDN (3054 KB)
Importance of advanced operational reliability and readiness monitoring of SAFIR lightning localization system (1152 KB)
Validation of an operational lightning detection system (2091 KB)
A new performance evaluation of the Brazilian Lightning Location System (RINDAT) based on high-speed camera observations of natural negative ground flashes (884 KB)
Performance analysis of the North American Lightning Detection Network using CN tower lightning data (562 KB)
NLDN performance in Southern Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma in 2003-2004 (989 KB)
Protection and Risk - Session 2B
Climatology of positive polarity flashes and multiplicity and their relation to natural wildfire ignitions (2120 KB)
Lightning protection to high value facilities: A Peruvian gold mine case study (479 KB)
A new real-time tool for fault analysis based on data provided by lightning location systems (558 KB)
Lightning protection for telecommunications facilities (491 KB)
Continuing studies into new lightning phenomena (1415 KB)
Human Safety
Lightning Kills-Play it Safe--NOAA's efforts to educate the public on the dangers of lightning (1286 KB)
Lightning decision support for public safety (2359 KB)
Warnings of cloud-to-ground lightning hazard based on combinations of total lightning detection and radar information (556 KB)
Total Lightning
An assessment of total lightning mapping using both VHF interferometry and (2886 KB)
Profeo: Programme Francilien d'etude des orages (1244 KB)
Detection Technology
Total lightning network in central Europe: The F.L.A.S.H. Project (3659 KB)
Occurrence of characteristic pulses in positive ground lightning in Brazil (592 KB)
Forming of the map of probable quantity of lightning discharges for increasing accuracy of the single-point thunderstorm location system (538 KB)
Lightning location systems in Japan (670 KB)
The lightning network LAMPINET of the Italian Air Force Meteorological Service (474 KB)
The introduction about New KLDNet (KOREA/KEPCO Lightning Detection Network) and the statistical distribution of lightning parameters in Korea ('96-'05) (797 KB)
How ground flash density obtained by lightning location networks can be used in lightning protection standards: A case study in Brazil (776 KB)
Utility
The application of lightning detection on power grid dispatching (720 KB)
Power system expansion planning: Applying LLS Data to evaluate lightning-related voltage sags (640 KB)
Electrical thunderstorm nowcasting using lightning data mining (515 KB)
Atmospheric Physics
Effect of active thunderstorm on ionospheric electron and ion temperatures as obtained by the SROSS-C2 satellite measurements (2987 KB)
Estimation of lightning electrostatic parameters based on atmospheric electric field measurements and genetic algorithms (1125 KB)
Horizontally and vertically polarized components of lightning electric fields (720 KB)
Some features of atmospherics waveforms transformation in the process of their propagation over the earth and its influence on the accuracy of DTOA lightning location systems (643 KB)
Network Performance
Experimental evaluation of the Catalan Lightning Location Network (810 KB)
A detection efficiency model for the Brazilian Lightning Detection Network (RINDAT) (2146 KB)