Browsing by Author "Williams, Earle R."

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    • 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.

    • 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)
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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). ...

    • Global distribution of winter lightning: a threat to wind turbines and aircraft 

      Montañá Puig, Juan; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; March Nomen, Víctor; Williams, Earle R.; Pineda Ruegg, Nicolau; Romero Durán, David; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Freijo Álvarez, Modesto (2016-01-01)
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      Lightning is one of the major threats to multi-megawatt wind turbines and a concern for modern aircraft due to the use of lightweight composite materials. Both wind turbines and aircraft can initiate lightning, and very ...

    • Meteorological aspects of self-initiated upward lightning at the Säntis Tower (Switzerland) 

      Pineda, Nicolau; Figueras i Ventura, Jordi; Romero Durán, David; Mostajabi, A.; Azadifar, M.; Sunjerga, A.; Rachidi-Haeri, Farhad; Rubinstein, M.; Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Altube Vázquez, Patricia; Besic, Nikola; Grazioli, Jacopo; Germann, Urs; Williams, Earle R. (2019-12-26)
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      Interest in exploring the meteorological conditions favoring upward lightning from tall man-made structures has grown in recent years, largely due to the worldwide expansion of wind energy. To this end, instrumented towers ...

    • Observation and properties of a sub-cloud bidirectional leader 

      Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Williams, Earle R.; Pineda Ruegg, Nicolau; Romero Durán, David; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria (2014)
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      In this paper we present the evolution of a bidirectional leader which appeared in ‘virgin’ air. In the observations we did not find any delay between the onsets of the two leader ends. The positive leader end presented a ...

    • On the TGF/lightning ratio asymmetry 

      Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Williams, Earle R. (2019-05-14)
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      Africa is one of the most productive lightning regions on Earth, yet it has a lower TGF-to-lightning ratio especially compared with Central America. In this paper we have analyzed the global distribution of different ...

    • Potential use of space-based lightning detection in electric power systems 

      Montañá Puig, Juan; López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Romero Durán, David; Morales Rodríguez, Carlos Augusto; Visacro, Silverio; Saba, Manuel; Goodman, Steven J.; Williams, Earle R.; Peterson, Michael J.; Pineda, Nicolau; Sousa Arcanjo, Marcelo Augusto; Aranguren Fino, Daniel (2022-12)
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      Information about lightning activity and its parameters is necessary to design and evaluate the lightning protection of an electrical power system. This information can be obtained from ground-based lightning detection ...

    • Schumann Resonance spectral characteristics: a useful tool to study Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) on global scale 

      Guha, Anirban; Williams, Earle R.; Boldi, Robert; Satori, Gabriella; Nagy, Tamás; Montañá Puig, Juan; Ortega, Pascal (2014)
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    • The start of lightning: evidence of bidirectional lightning initiation 

      Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Williams, Earle R. (Macmillan Publishers, 2015-10-18)
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      Lightning flashes are known to initiate in regions of strong electric fields inside thunderstorms, between layers of positively and negatively charged precipitation particles. For that reason, lightning inception is ...