Despite being one of the most familiar and widely recognized natural phenomena, lightning
remains relatively poorly understood. Even the most basic questions of how lightning is …

It is now well established that both thunderclouds and lightning routinely emit x-rays and
gamma-rays. These emissions appear over wide timescales, ranging from sub-microsecond …

A long-standing but fundamental question in lightning studies concerns how lightning is
initiated inside storms, given the absence of physical conductors. The issue has revolved …

A GPS‐based system has been developed that accurately locates the sources of VHF
radiation from lightning discharges in three spatial dimensions and time. The observations …

During the past years a VLF/LF lightning detection network (LINET) was developed at the
University of Munich, which provides continuous data for both research and operational …

We report the global transient luminous event (TLE) distributions and rates based on the
Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning (ISUAL) experiment onboard the …

This review paper, prepared for this second special issue on lightning of the IEEE
Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, summarizes major publications on lightning …

Thunderstorms are natural laboratories for studying electrical discharges in air, where the
vast temporal, spatial, and energy scales available can spawn surprising phenomena that …

Performance Assessment of the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), Using
the Los Alamos Sferic Array (LASA) as Ground Truth in: Journal of Atmospheric and …

Three‐dimensional lightning mapping observations have been used to estimate the peak
source powers radiated by individual VHF events of lightning discharges. The peak powers …