Abstract: Although lightning rods have long been used to limit damage from lightning, there are currently no American standards for the shape and form of these devices. Following tradition, however, sharp-tipped Franklin rods are ...

Abstract: Observations are presented in which the standard dual-polarization meteorological quantities (ZDR, ?dp, and ?HV) are determined from simultaneous horizontal (H) and vertical (V) transmissions. The return signals are measured ...

Abstract: Conventional lightning rods used in the United States have sharp tips, a practice derived from Benjamin Franklin's discovery of a means to obtain protection from lightning. However, the virtue of sharp tips for strike ...

Abstract: yrocumulus clouds above three Colorado wildfires (Hewlett Gulch, High Park, and Waldo Canyon; all during the summer of 2012) electrified and produced localized intracloud discharges whenever the smoke plumes grew above 10 ...

Abstract: Balloon soundings were made through two supercell storms during the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS) in summer 2000. Instruments measured the vector electric field, temperature, pressure, ...

Abstract: The lightning data that are recorded with a three-dimensional lightning mapping array (LMA) are compared with data from an electric field change sensor (in this case a flat-plate antenna operated both as a ?slow? and a ...

Abstract: On 28?29 June 2004 a multicellular thunderstorm west of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was probed as part of the Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Experiment field program. This study makes use of radar observations ...

Abstract: During May?July 2000, the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS) occurred in the High Plains, near the Colorado?Kansas border. STEPS aimed to achieve a better understanding of the interactions ...

Abstract: The field program of the Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Experiment (TELEX) took place in central Oklahoma, May?June 2003 and 2004. It aimed to improve understanding of the interrelationships among microphysics, ...

Abstract: Statement:A World Meteorological Organization committee has judged that the world?s longest reported distance for a single lightning flash occurred with a horizontal distance of 321 km (199.5 mi) over Oklahoma in 2007, ...