Welcome to our Lightning Links page. We've just added this to our suite of such pages and know that we need to add more links here. So, please consider this only as a starting point.
We hope this newly formatted listing helps you more easily find the weather information you are looking for.
If you would like to recommend a site for inclusion, please let us know and we'll consider it.
If you find that a site doesn't work properly or that a link has become outdated, please let us know that as well. We'll update it promptly.
Until then, happy "surfing"!
Mike & Barbara (How the Weatherworks educators)
Global Atmospherics, Inc. - Lightning
Safety
http://www.glatmos.com/lightinfo/recommendations.html#recomm
A group of scientists, educators, and others interested in lightning
safety has developed a list of safety rules. Check them out and
be lightning-safe!
NOAA/NSSL - Lightning FAQs
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/ltg/
NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory has compiled some useful
lightning information.
NASA's Lightning Mapper Project
http://thunder.nsstc.nasa.gov/
NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) includes a Lightning
Team. As part of their research activities, the members of this
team have been investigating the causes and effects of lightning
as well as analyzing a wide variety of atmospheric measurements
related to thunderstorms (e.g., the relationship between the electrical
characteristics of storms and precipitation, convection, and severe
weather.
In their work, the GHCC Lightning Team has designed, constructed and deployed numerous types of ground based, airborne, and space based sensors used to detect lightning and characterize the electrical behavior of thunderstorms. The data collected by the GHCC's Lightning Team is routinely shared with scientists around the globe, resulting in numerous advancements in the field of Atmospheric Science. Some of it is also posted here for easy viewing.
For monthly and seasonal lightning data from the Optical Transient Detector (OTD), a space-based observation tool, check out http://thunder.nsstc.nasa.gov/data/OTDsummaries/
For a map showing data from the Optical Transient Detector (OTD), since launch, check out http://thunder.nsstc.nasa.gov/data/OTDsummaries/gifs/mission_world.gif
This page was updated on January 30, 2001.
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