Fundamentals of Lightning
eBook - PDF

Fundamentals of Lightning

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fundamentals of Lightning

About this book

This new book provides a focused set of topics suitable for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on lightning. It presents the current state of the art in lightning science including areas such as lightning modeling, calculation of lightning electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic methods of lightning location, and lightning damaging effects and protective techniques. Pedagogical features designed to facilitate class learning include end-of-chapter summaries, further reading suggestions, questions and problems, and a glossary explaining key lightning and atmospheric electricity terms. A selection of appendices are provided at the end of the book, which include detailed derivations of exact equations for computing electric and magnetic fields produced by lightning. Designed for a single-semester course on lightning and its effects, and written in a style accessible to technical non-experts, this book will also be a useful, up-to-date reference for scientists, engineers and practitioners who have to deal with lightning in their work.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Types of lightning discharges and lightning terminology
  9. 2 Incidence of lightning to areas and structures
  10. 3 Electrical structure of thunderclouds
  11. 4 Properties of the downward negative lightning discharge to ground
  12. 5 Calculation of lightning electromagnetic fields
  13. 6 Modeling of the lightning return stroke
  14. 7 Measurement of lightning electric and magnetic fields
  15. 8 Electromagnetic methods of lightning location
  16. 9 Lightning damaging effects and protective techniques
  17. Appendix 1 How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds?
  18. Appendix 2 Reconstruction of sources from measured electrostatic field changes
  19. Appendix 3 Derivation of exact equations for computing lightning electric and magnetic fields
  20. Appendix 4 Compact intracloud discharges (CIDs)
  21. Appendix 5 Is it true that lightning never strikes the same place twice?
  22. Appendix 6 Is it possible to use lightning as an energy source?
  23. Appendix 7 Lightning safety
  24. Appendix 8 Lightning makes glass
  25. Appendix 9 Bibliography on triggered lightning experiments and natural lightning observations at Camp Blanding, Florida (1995–2014)
  26. Glossary
  27. References
  28. Index