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| ⇒ Volume 24 No.1[1.28MB] Nov 2012 |
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X-band Phased Array Radar (PAR) installed at the top of a building in Suita Campus, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, and time series of the 3 dimensional thunderstorm structure captured by the PAR system in every 2 minutes, showing how the thunderstorm structure changes in a short time. Actual temporal resolution of the PAR system is 10 to 30 seconds for 60 km range and the continuous images of the evolution of the thunderstorm can be obtained with the developed system. One of the scientific results using the PAR with lightning location system appears in Wu et al. GRL, 2013.
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| ⇒ Volume 23 No.2[1.43MB] Nov 2012 |
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LMA source locations and channel base current for an unusual triggered lightning flash at the UF/FIT International Center for Lightning Research and Testing at Camp Blanding, FL. The triggering process with its upward positive leader curiously led to the initiation of an intracloud discharge from the top of the lower negative charge region into the upper positive charge region, with some of the charge from the upper positive center flowing to ground, reversing the normal direction of current flow at ground. The LMA sources of the negative upward leader which initiates the cloud discharge are shown on the bottom left figure in red dots just prior to the current reversal. Adapted from a paper to be submitted for publication by Hill, Pilkey, Uman, Jordan (UF), Rison, Krehbiel (New Mexico Tech), Biggerstaff, Highland (OU), and Blakeslee (NASA).
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| ⇒ Volume 23 No.1[1.48MB] May 2012 |
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Do positive and negative lightning look different? Please compare the two images taken with a digital still camera using 20 sec exposures. For the +CG, there was prolific recoil leader activity on the positive leader branches where you see many branches near the tips. The more erratic leader directional change is apparent in the negative leaders of the -CG flash. The negative leader branches also remain bright and do not branch profusely near their tips. The photos and the caption are contributed by Tom A. Warner, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology..
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| ⇒ Volume 22 No.2[2.21MB] Nov 2011 |
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The rocket-triggered lightning flash on August 3, 2010, mapped by the Lightning Mapping Array of NMT Langmuir Laboratory. Positive leaders of the flash extended into the mid-level negative charge region situated between 5 to 7 km altitude. Multiple dart leaders occurred through the channel to ground, retracing the paths of positive breakdown.
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| ⇒ Volume 22 No.1 May 2011 |
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The radar echo and the overlaid 3D lightning mapping of an isolated thunderstorm during its developing stage 6 minutes in Qinghai-Tibet plateau area.
Youtube lightning Animationt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd34RStIVPI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhnADxyncuI
The animations were generated by a MATLAB software called StormAnalysis.
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| ⇒ Volume 21 No.2 November 2010 |
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Image of a gigantic jet at its leading jet phase, above a thunderstorm east of Réunion Island.
Greetings from the IAMAS General-secretariat
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| ⇒ Volume 21 No.1 May 2010 |
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Intense lightning activity during the explosive eruption of the Mt. Redoubt volcano in Alaska at 23:20 UTC on 28 March 2009. The lightning began over Redoubt (marked with white cross-hairs) and continued for 40 min as the plume drifted 70 km eastward towards the Kenai Peninsula coast.
DEDICATION
Charles B. Moore, October 20, 1920 - March 2, 2010
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| ⇒ Volume 20 No.2 November 2009 |
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SPECIAL SESSION OF ICAE NEWSLETTER
History of the Lightning Mapping Array
Paul Krehbiel (New Mexico Tech.)
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| ⇒ Volume 20 No.1 May 2009 |
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SPECIAL SESSION OF ICAE NEWSLETTER
Recollections on the Origin of the Newsletter of Atmospheric Electricity
Earle Williams (MIT)
What have we achieved in the past 20 years? And what can we expect in the next 20 years?
Daohong Wang (Gifu Univ.)
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| ⇒ Volume 19 No.2 November 2008 |
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A comparison between radar echo and LINET locations of lightning during a 2 min time period centered around the radar scan for a hailstorm observed in Southern Germany on 29 June 2005 at 13:22 UTC. by Hans D. Betz, taken from a recent publication (H.]D.
Betz, K. Schmidt, B. Fuchs, P. Oettinger and H. Hoeller, JOLR, Vol.2, p.1.17, 2007).
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| ⇒ Volume 19 No.1 May 2008 |
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A pair of pets? or monsters? Are they hovering on a big fire? This photo was taken by a small group of high school students from Gizan High School of Gifu Prefecture of Japan during a Japanese winter thunderstorm as part of so called gSuper]Science]High]Schoolh activity that was financially supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan.
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| ⇒ Volume 18 No.2 November 2007 |
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A behemoth of lightning flash that was artificially triggered to a test-windmill-blade in Japanese winter thunderstorm using rocket-wire technique by Prof.Sumi, Chubu University of Japan. The total electric charge lowered by this lightning flash to the ground is +500 C. The photo was taken at the ending stage of the lightning flash.
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| ⇒ Volume 18 No.1 May 2007 |
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Early stage of a typical thunderstorm on central Tibetan Plateau. The mean lifetime is usually about 30 minutes, and flash rate is about 1-2 fl/min.
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| ⇒ Volume 17 No.2 November 2006 |
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Oscar caught this spectacular sprite photo at Mont Aigoual on September 11th night, during the 2006 eurosprite campaign, by using his digtal camera (Canon EOS 5D). This story behind thee photo is available on the blog: http://eurosprite.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-of-red-sprite.html
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| ⇒ Volume 17 No.1 May 2006 |
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Serge Soula, Marie-Falante, Fuadeloupe, France.
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| ⇒ Volume 16 No.2 November 2005 |
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Oscar Van der Velde, Wageningen, Nederland.
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| ⇒ Volume 16 No.1 May 2005 |
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| ⇒ Volume 12 No.2 November 2001 |
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| ⇒ Volume 11 No.2 November 2000 |
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| ⇒ Volume 11 No.1 May 2000 |
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