Lightning/External Links


 * Impressive lightning photography More than 200 Lightning-Pictures
 * Video of a heavy thunderstorm Source: German Weather Chronicles
 * How cosmic rays trigger lightning strikes
 * Article from How Stuff Works
 * Video: Lightning protection for an Antenna
 * UK Met Office lightning safety and power advice
 * dmoz: Thunderstorms and Lightning
 * Lightning Safety Page - National Weather Service Pueblo Colorado Citat: "...This is known as a "side flash". Many people who are "struck" by lightning are not hit directly by the main lightning channel, but are affected by the side flash..."
 * Lightning Facts
 * Laser Beam Triggers Lightning Strike During Japanese Experiment
 * Colorado Lightning Resource Center
 * Webarchive: April 25,1997 Sandia-led research may zap old beliefs about lightning protection at critical facilities; Triggered lightning tests leading to safer storage bunkers
 * 2003-11-06, ScienceDaily: Thunderstorm Research Shocks Conventional Theories; Florida Tech Physicist Throws Open Debate On Lightning's Cause
 * Huge oak tree destroyed by lightning, by Igor Chudov
 * Austrian Lightning Detection and Information System
 * European Cooperation for Lightning Detection
 * How to Photograph Lightning A page with both brief and verbose instructions on taking lightning photos.
 * Lightning strike to aircraft
 * Lightning and The Empire State Building NYC
 * Lightning Gallery Flickr set of lightning from around the world
 * Positive Lightning Strike Photo of a nearby positive lightning strike that nearly kills the Australian photographer
 * Petrified lightning (fulgurites) from Central Florida
 * United States Precision Lightning Network - Live lightning data map
 * NASA Finds Lightning Clears Safe Zone in Earth's Radiation Belt
 * AMS Glossary: Dart Leader
 * NOAA: What is Lightning?

Theories of Lightning formation: http://www.enviromom.us/lightning/lightning%20formation.htm

Jets, sprites, and elves

 * Homepage of the Eurosprite campaign, itself part of the CAL (Coupled Atmospheric Layers research group
 * March 2, 1999, University of Houston: UH Physicists Pursue Lightning-Like Mysteries Quote: "...Red sprites and blue jets are brief but powerful lightning-like flashes that appear at altitudes of 40-100 km (25-60 miles) above thunderstorms..."
 * Ground and Balloon-Borne Observations of Sprites and Jets
 * Barrington-Leigh, C. P., "Elves : Ionospheric Heating By the Electromagnetic Pulses from Lightning (A primer)". Space Science Lab, Berkeley.
 * "Darwin Sprites '97". Space Physics Group, University of Otago.
 * Gibbs, W. Wayt, "Sprites and Elves : Lightning's strange cousins flicker faster than light itself". San Francisco. ScientificAmerican.com.
 * Barrington-Leigh, Christopher, "VLF Research at Palmer Station".
 * Heavenly light show caught on film (Nature) - Requires subscription to news@nature.com.
 * Lucky snapshot: lightning strikes chemical mill in Germany
 * Lightning detection system shows lightning activity in the Tampa Bay, Florida area