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Reference Information
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| 6.1 |
General Interest Reference |
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6.1.1 |
Information for the
Media |
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6.1.2 |
Little
Known Lightning Information |
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6.1.3 |
Weather
Factoids |
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6.1.4 |
Mastery, Mystery and
Myths about Lightning |
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6.1.5 |
Lightning Safety
Discussion Group - An umoderated Yahoo! forum for lightning
safety and power quality issues |
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6.1.7 |
The Thunder Mechanism |
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The Science of Thunder |
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6.1.9 |
A Celebration of
Benjamin Franklin: The Year
1706 and Other Events of that Era |
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6.1.10 |
Wisdom
from Benjamin Franklin |
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6.1.11 |
Benjamin Franklin on Leadership |
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A Brief
History of Lightning Safety in the U.S. |
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NLSI's
Short Version of Risk Assessment |
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6.1.14 |
Fast Facts About Lightning (PDF file) |
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6.1.15 |
Measured Lightning Activity Worldwide |
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6.1.16 |
A Lightning Safety Quiz (1.3-MB EXE file (ZIP)) |
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| 6.2 |
Lightning Maps |
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6.2.1 |
World
Lightning Map |
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6.2.2 |
United
States (thunderstorm days/year) |
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6.2.3 |
United
States (flash density/year) |
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6.2.4 |
Australia |
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6.2.5 |
France |
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6.2.6 |
Japan |
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6.2.7 |
United
Kingdom |
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6.2.8 |
Argentina |
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6.2.9 |
Brasil (thanks to Claudio Silva) |
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| 6.3 |
Photos and Images |
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6.3.1 |
On-site
Photos from NLSI Consulting Projects |
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6.3.2 |
Lightning
Damage Photos |
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6.3.3 |
A Slide Presentation on Lightning Defenses |
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6.3.4 |
Lightning
Behavoir Illustrated |
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6.3.5 |
Lightning Bolt Photos by Others |
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6.3.6 |
Photos of NLSI Activities |
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| 6.4 |
Technical Reference |
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6.4.1 |
Lightning Terms
Glossary |
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6.4.2 |
Fundamentals of Lightning - By Vladimir A. Rakov
(5.9 MB PDF file) |
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6.4.3 |
Matrix of Lightning
Protection Subsystems |
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6.4.4 |
NASA's Lightning Primer |
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6.4.5 |
Streamers, Sprites, Leaders, Lightning. |
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6.4.6 |
National Weather Service Manual NWSM 30-4106 (2017), Lightning Protection, Grounding, Bonding, Shielding and Surge Protection Requirements |
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6.4.7 |
IEEE Std 1692-2011 Guide for the Protection of Communications Installations from Lightning Effects |
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6.4.8 |
KSC-STD-E0022 (2013) Bonding, Grounding, Shielding, Electromagnetic Interference, Lightning and Transient Protection, Design Requirements for Ground Systems |
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| 6.5 |
NLSI Research Program on the Comparative
Behavior of Air Terminals |
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6.5.1 |
Experimental
Design |
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6.5.2 |
Installation
Details |
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6.5.3 |
Summary
of Results |
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6.5.4 |
Collaborator
Setups |
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6.5.5 |
2005
Details |
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6.5.6 |
2006
Take-Down of Six-Year Experiment |
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6.5.7 |
2012 Experiment at HALOS |
