Abstract: Flashes detected by the Optical Transient Detector (OTD) that occur over the continental United States (CONUS) are intercompared with data from the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) in order to partition the OTD ...

Abstract: Bayesian inversion method is introduced for retrieving the fraction of ground flashes in a set of flashes observed from a (low earth orbiting or geostationary) satellite lightning imager. The method employs a constrained ...

Abstract: It is shown that the problem of retrieving storm electric fields from an aircraft instrumented with several electric field mill sensors can be expressed in terms of a standard Lagrange multiplier optimization problem. The ...

Abstract: A simple linear algebraic solution is introduced for retrieving the location and time-of-occurrence of lightning ground strikes on a spherical earth from a network of four or more time-of-arrival sensors. Since the solution ...

Abstract: retrieval method is introduced for estimating the fraction of ground flashes in a set of N flashes observed from either a low earth-orbiting or geostationary satellite lightning imager. The methodology exploits the fact ...

Abstract: A matrix calibration procedure has been developed that uniquely relates the electric fields measured at the aircraft with the external vector electric field and net aircraft charge. The calibration method can be generalized ...

Abstract: A linear algebraic solution is provided for the problem of retrieving the location and time of occurrence of lightning ground strikes from an Advanced Lightning Direction Finder (ALDF) network. The ALDF network measures ...

Abstract: A ?dimensional reduction? (?DR?) method is introduced for analyzing lightning field changes (?Es) whereby the number of unknowns in a discrete two-charge model is reduced from the standard eight (x, y, z, Q, x?, y?, z?, ...

Abstract: The Lagrange multiplier theory developed in Part I of this study is applied to complete a relative calibration of a Citation aircraft that is instrumented with six field mill sensors. When side constraints related to average ...

Abstract: Lightning data from the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) are used to perform preliminary validation of the satellite-based Optical Transient Detector (OTD). Sensor precision, accuracy, detection efficiency, ...