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    • 2004 Electromagnetic fields measurement campaign 

      Montañá Puig, Juan (2005)
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    • A case of winter lightning initiation from a tall structure in the Basque Country 

      López, Javier; Montañá Puig, Juan; Maruri, M.; Aranda, José Antonio; Gaztelumendi, S. (2010)
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      Lightning research is usually focused on the most active months of the year, those corresponding to the summer season. These thunderstorms produce most of the lightning records during a year in the Basque Country, and ...

    • A closer look at lightning reveals needle-like structures 

      Williams, Earle R.; Montañá Puig, Juan (Macmillan Publishers, 2019-04-17)
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      Structural features have been identified on positively charged lightning channels that are not present on negatively charged ones. The discovery could explain why these two types of channel have different behaviours.

    • A mediterranean nocturnal heavy rainfall and tornadic event. Part I: overview, damage survey and radar analysis 

      Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Bech, Joan; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Rigo, Tomeu; Aran, Montserrat; Amaró, Jésica; Gayà, M; Arús, J; Montañá Puig, Juan (2011-01-03)
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      This study presents an analysis of a severe weather case that took place during the early morning of the 2nd of November 2008, when intense convective activity associated with a rapidly evolving low pressure system affected ...

    • A mediterranean nocturnal heavy rainfall and tornadic event. Part II: total lightning analysis 

      Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Bech, Joan; Rigo, Tomeu; Montañá Puig, Juan (2010-11-09)
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      On the night from 1st to 2nd of November 2008, a multi-cell storm coming from the Mediterranean produced severe weather in the coastal area of Catalonia (NE Spain): groundlevel strong damaging wind gusts, a tornado – ...

    • A numerical solver to assess the impact of wind, geometry, and altitude on artificial charge control of aircraft using corona discharge 

      Candela Rubio, Héctor; Fontanes Molina, Pol; Urbani, Michele; Guerra García, Carmen; Montañá Puig, Juan (2022)
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      Prior work by members of the team has shown that active charge control might reduce the risk of aircraft-triggered lightning. Controlling the net charge of an aircraft can be achieved by using corona discharge. For a ...

    • A propagative model for simulations of electric fields produced by downward leaders 

      Hermoso Costa, Juan Ramón; Montañá Puig, Juan; March Nomen, Víctor; Romero Durán, David; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud (2010)
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      This paper presents simulations of a downward negative leaders performed by means of 3D finite element method (FEM). The leaders are considered do progress vertically leaders in which different charge distributions and ...

    • A propagative model for simulations of electric fields produced by downward leaders 

      Hermoso Costa, Juan Ramón; Montañá Puig, Juan; March Nomen, Víctor; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Romero Durán, David; Hermoso Alameda, Blas; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau (2012-07-13)
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      Comparisons of simulated downward negative leaders with experimental measurements are presented in this paper. In order to simplify, the leaders are considered to progress vertically and charge distributions and leader ...

    • A simple method to estimate the return stroke current from close electric field measurements 

      Montañá Puig, Juan; Illa Arnau, Àngel; Hermoso Alameda, Blas; Romero Durán, David (2004)
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      During summers 2003 and 2004 a measurement campaign was carried out over Catalonia (N-E of Spain). In these campaigns, lightning electrostatic field as well electric and magnetic fields were measured. This paper describes ...

    • A simultaneous observation of lightning by ASIM, Colombia-Lightning Mapping Array, GLM, and ISS-LIS 

      Montañá Puig, Juan; López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Morales Rodríguez, Carlos Augusto; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Pineda, Nicolau; Navarro González, Javier; Reglero, Víctor; Neubert, Torsten; Chanrion, Olivier; Goodman, Steven J.; Østgaard, Nikolai; Ladino Rincón, Alfonso; Romero Durán, David; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Horta Bernús, Ricard; Freijo Álvarez, Modesto (2021-02-17)
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      The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the International Space Station (ISS) provides optical radiances and images of lightning flashes in several spectral bands. This work presents a lightning flash simultaneously ...

    • A study of thunderstorm characteristics using lightning and weather radar observations 

      Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Bech, Joan; Rigo, Tomeu; Montañá Puig, Juan (2004)
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      The main objective of this study was to give insight into the temporal and spatial aspects of lightning activity during the life cycle of diverse types of thunderstorms, and to examine the possible relationships with ...

    • ACCIONAMENTS I TRANSMISSIONS (Examen 2n quadrimestre, 1r parcial) 

      Montañá Puig, Juan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-04-16)
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    • Actividades de investigación de rayos en España 

      Montañá Puig, Juan (2009)
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    • Activitat per integrar 3 competències genèriques en el grau d'electricitat 

      Bergas Jané, Joan Gabriel; Montañá Puig, Juan; Brunet Pladevall, Mònica (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2012-07-06)
      Conference report
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      With the integration of English at university teaching, there are several aspects to improve, to emphasize, to integrate... For example, we have observed that there are a certain distance between students and teachers when ...

    • Aircraft Charging and its Influence on Triggered Lightning 

      Pavan, C.; Fontanes Molina, Pol; Urbani, Michele; Nguyen, Ngoc-Cuong; Martínez Sánchez, Manuel; Peraire Guitart, Jaume; Guerra García, Carmen; Montañá Puig, Juan (2020-01-16)
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      This paper reports on a laboratory experiment to study the effect of vehicle net charge on theinception of a positive leader from an aircraft exposed to high atmospheric electric fields. The experimentmodels the first stage ...

    • Aliasing of the Schumann resonance background signal by sprite-associated Q-bursts 

      Guha, Anirban; Williams, Earle R.; Boldi, Robert; Satori, Gabriella; Nagy, Tamás; Bór, József; Montañá Puig, Juan; Ortega, Pascal (2017-12)
      Article
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      The Earth's naturally occurring Schumann resonances (SR) are composed of a quasi-continuous background component and a larger-amplitude, short-duration transient component, otherwise called ‘Q-burst’ (Ogawa et al., 1967). ...

    • An observational description of a tornadic severe weather event 

      Bech, Joan; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Aran, M; Amaro, J; Gayà, M; Arús, J; Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud (2009)
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      This study presents an analysis of a severe weather case study that took place during the early morning of the 2nd of November 2008, when intense convective activity associated to a rapidly evolving low pressure system ...

    • Analysis of lightning forecats in Colombia based on the lightning detection network data 

      Inampués, Juan; Aranguren Fino, Daniel; Torres, Horacio; Montañá Puig, Juan; Santoyo, Israel; Olarte, Edison; Younes, Camilo (2009-11-09)
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      This paper presents an analysis of lightning warnings based on Cloud to Ground flashes information provided by the Colombian lightning locating network (RECMA) during five years. Predictions made in this analysis have ...

    • Analysis of energetic radiation associated with thunderstorms in the Ebro delta region in Spain 

      Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Montañá Puig, Juan; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Argemí Ribera, Oriol; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Romero Durán, David; Soula, Serge (2016-08-25)
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      The analysis of high-energy background radiation (0.1 – 2 MeV) enhancements during eight winter thunderstorms and ¿ve summer storms in the Ebro delta region in the northeast of Spain is presented. For the ¿rst time, ...

    • Analysis of five Gigantic Jets observed near Réunion Island with video and photographic cameras 

      Soula, Serge; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Montañá Puig, Juan; Huet, Patrice; Barthe, Christelle; Bor, Jozsef (Elsevier, 2011)
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      Five gigantic jets (GJ) have been recorded by a camera on March 7th 2010, at a very closedistance above an isolated tropical storm east of Réunion Island. Three of them were produced within about 4 minutes before the storm ...