ILDC 2008

Detection Technology
An overview of cloud-to-ground lightning research in Brazil in the last two decades (2813 KB)
Potential use of a Bayesian network for discriminating flash type from future GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) data (229 KB)
A lightning flash as seen by video, Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array, the National Lightning Detection Network and the Los Alamos Sferics Array (2053 KB)
The main advances and the most common misleading applications related to lightning location system data (132 KB)
Estimation of charge during a lightning flash using electric field measurement (765 KB)
Validation
Modeling and calibration of Vaisala's operational long range lightning detection network (1704 KB)
Observing lightning around the globe from the surface (718 KB)
Network Performance
A method to determine relative stroke detection efficiencies from multiplicity distributions (242 KB)
The third generation relative detection efficiency model for the Brazilian lightning detection network (BrasilDAT) (1255 KB)
VHF total lightning mapping network in Tucson: Very first data acquired (368 KB)
Protection & Risk
Research and application of active lightning protection technology (302 KB)
A low cost lightning protection system and its effectiveness (1149 KB)
High reliability preventive lightning protection (321 KB)
Human Impacts
How lightning kills and injures (and why we don't know more about it) (299 KB)
A review of lightning impacts in Canada (239 KB)
Lightning situation in Romania (566 KB)
Recent updates in lightning safety (368 KB)
Recent advances in understanding the neurobehavioral aspects of electrical injury (259 KB)
Annual rates of lightning fatalities by country (253 KB)
Lightning Kills – Play It Safe -- NOAA’s continuing efforts to educate the public on lightning and lightning safety (1784 KB)
Distribution of lightning injury mechanisms (144 KB)
Short notice outdoor lightning risk reduction - evaluating its performance and discussion on why it should not be taught (144 KB)
Atmospheric Physics
Propagation effects caused by stratified ground on electromagnetic fields of return strokes (420 KB)
Detailed storm simulations by a numerical cloud model with electrification and lightning parameterizations (550 KB)
Characteristics of vertical e-field waveforms associated with return-strokes on southeastern sea of Kyushu in Japan (294 KB)
Properties of negative cloud-to-ground lightning from high speed video observations in Arizona, USA and São Paulo, Brazil (298 KB)
The use of impulse charge moment changes to predict sprites in mesoscale convective systems (2605 KB)
Utility Applications
A multi-power line corridor and lightning error ellipse spatial processor for real-time correlator (378 KB)
Support system for outages caused by lightning evaluation (SAAD) (1799 KB)
High Current
Critical analysis of LLS detected very large peak current lightning strokes (360 KB)
About the peak currents above 300 kA observed by lightning location systems (702 KB)
Large current lightning flashes in Canada: 1999-2006 (439 KB)
Large peak current cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in southeastern Brazil (1446 KB)
Safety Warning Systems
Total lightning, electrostatic field and meteorological radar applied to lightning hazard warning (267 KB)
An empirical lightning cessation forecast scheme at the Cape Canaveral Air Station and the Kennedy Space Center (640 KB)
Cloud-to-ground lightning warnings using electric field mill and lightning observations (259 KB)
Analysis of surface electric-field contours in relation to cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in air-mass thunderstorms at the Kennedy Space Center (1196 KB)
Lightning safety research requirements (209 KB)
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) (785 KB)
Wide-area soil moisture estimation using the propagation of lightning generated low-frequency electromagnetic signals (726 KB)
Positive leader characteristics from high-speed video observations (973 KB)
Characteristics of cloud-to-ground lightning in the Great Plains (1055 KB)
Wave shapes of continuing currents from negative and positive cloud-to-ground flashes observed in southern Arizona (741 KB)
Classification of small negative lightning reports at the KSC-ER (745 KB)
Observations of cloud-to-ground lightning in the Great Plains (1447 KB)