For the full list of WWLLN articles go to Published_Articles_referring_to_WWLLN.htm including 2,200 published articles and at least 60 advanced degree theses using WWLLN data
(These articles each depend on WWLLN data)
Note to Authors: Please include this statement in your
papers using WWLLN data:
"Acknowledgement: The authors wish to thank the World Wide
Lightning Location Network (http://wwlln.net), a collaboration among over 50
universities and institutions, for providing the lightning location data used
in this paper."
When it was still called the 'TOGA' network:
0. Dowden, R. L. and J.B. Brundell, Improvements relating to the location of
lightning discharges, Australian Patent Office, patent number AU 200071483 Al,
Application Date 2000.11.08, Publication date:2001.05.17.
1.4MB PDF ... patent
link
1. VLF lightning location by time of group arrival (TOGA) at multiple sites Dowden, R.L., Brundell, J.B.; Rodger, C.J. Source: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, v 64, n 7, May 2002, p 817-30 PDF of text (0.6MB)
After WWLLN got its name:
2. WWLL global lightning detection system: Regional validation study in Brazil Lay, E.H. (Dept. of Earth & Space Sci., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA); Holzworth, R.H.; Rodger, C.J.; Thomas, J.N.; Pinto, O., Jr.; Dowden, R.L. Source: Geophysical Research Letters, v 31, n 3, 16 Feb. 2004, p 5 pp. PDF of text (2.7 MB)
3. Rodger, C. J., J. B. Brundell, R. L. Dowden, and N. R. Thomson, 2004: Location accuracy of long distance VLF lightning location network. Ann. Geophys., 22, 747-758. PDF of text (4.7 MB)
4. Balloon observations of temporal variation in the global circuit compared to global lightning activity, Holzworth, R.H. (Earth & Space Sci., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA); Bering, E.A., III; Kokorowski, M.F.; Lay, E.H.; Reddell, B.; Kadokura, A.; Yamagishi, H.; Sato, N.; Ejiri, M.; Hirosawa, H.; Yamagami, T.; Torii, S.; Tohyama, F.; Nakagawa, M.; Okada, T.; Dowden, R.L. Source: Advances in Space Research, v 36, n 11, 2005, p 2223-8 PDF of text (0.3MB)
5. Rodger, C. J., J. B. Brundell, and R. L. Dowden, 2005: Location accuracy of VLF World Wide Lightning Location (WWLL) network: Post-algorithm upgrade. Ann. Geophys., 23, 277-290. PDF of text (4.9 MB)
6. Yair, Y., C. Price, B. Ziv, P. L. Israelevich, D. D. Sentman, F. T. Sao-Sabbas, A. D. Devir, M. Sato, C. J. Rodger, M. Moalem, E. Greenberg, and O. Yaron, Space Shuttle observation of an unusual transient atmospheric emission, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(2), 10.1029/2004GL021551, 2005. PDF of text (0.3 MB)
7. Collier, A. B., A. R. W. Hughes, J. Lichtenberger, and P. Steinbach, Seasonal and diurnal variation of lightning activity over southern Africa and correlation with European whistler observations, Annales Geophysicae, 24, 529 - 542, 2006. PDF of text (1.7 MB)
8. Performance assessment of the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), using the Los Alamos Sferic Array (LASA) array as ground-truth, Abram R. Jacobson Robert H. Holzworth Jeremiah Harlin Richard L. Dowden Erin H. Lay, (Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (AMS), V.23, pp. 1082-92, (August 2006). PDF of text (1.0 MB)
9. Local Time Variation in Land/Ocean Lightning Count Rates as Measured by the World Wide Lightning Location Network, Erin H. Lay, Abram R. Jacobson, Robert H. Holzworth, Craig J. Rodger, Richard L. Dowden, for J. Geophys. Res.,JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 112, D13111, doi:10.1029/2006JD007944, 2007 PDF 0.3 MB
10. Detection efficiency of the VLF World-Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN): Initial case study, Craig J. Rodger, Simon Werner, James B. Brundell, Erin H. Lay, Neil R. Thomson, Robert H. Holzworth, Richard L. Dowden Ann. Geophys., 24, 31973214, 2006 PDF (6.4MB )
11. A Very Active Sprite-Producing Storm Observed Over Argentina, J. N. Thomas et al, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 88, No. 10, 6 March 2007, pp. 117-128. PDF (1.1 MB)
12. Lightning activity analyses with respect to the SPCZ location, P. Ortega and T. Guignes, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L11807, doi:10.1029/2007GL029730, 2007. PDF of text (0.4 MB)
13. Simultaneous Imaging and ELF/VLF Measurements of a Sprite-Halo Driven by a Negative Lightning Discharge over Argentina, M.J. Taylor, M. Bailey, P.-D. Pautet, S. A. Cummer, N. Jaugey, J. N. Thomas, N.N. Solorzano, S. Sao Sabbas, R. Holzworth, Pinto and N. Schuch, for GRL (if it fits, else JGR) (2007)
14. East African lightning as a precursor of Atlantic hurricane activity, Colin Price, Yoav Yair, and Mustafa Asfur, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L09805, doi:10.1029/2006GL028884, 2007 PDF text (1.0 MB)
15. A Three Magnetic Direction Finder Network for a Local Warning Device, P. Orgega, Journal of Lightning Research, V. 2, PP. 18-27, 2007 PDF text 0.5 MB
16. Kumar, S. (Univ. of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji); Anil, D.; Kishore, A.; Ramachandran, V., Whistlers observed at low-latitude ground-based VLF facility in Fiji, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, v 69, n 12, Aug. 2007, 1366-76
17. GLOBAL STUDIES OF TROPICAL CYCLONES USING THE WORLD WIDE LIGHTNING LOCATION NETWORK, Natalia N. Solorzano, Jeremy N. Thomas, and Robert H. Holzworth, Paper presented at AMS 2008 meeting in New Orleans (January 2008) Solorzano et al 0.2MB
18. Seeking sprite-induced signatures in remotely sensed middle atmosphere NO2, E. Arnone, A. Kero, B. M. Dinelli, C.-F. Enell, N. F. Arnold, E. Papandrea, Craig J. Rodger, M. Carlotti, M. Ridolfi, and E. Turunen, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L05807, doi:10.1029/2007GL031791, 2008 Arnone et al, (0.2MB)
19. Rare measurements of a sprite with halo event driven by a negative lightning discharge over Argentina, M. J. Taylor, M. A. Bailey, P. D. Pautet, S. A. Cummer, N. Jaugey, J. N. Thomas, N. N. Solorzano, F. Sao Sabbas, R. H. Holzworth, O. Pinto, and N. J. Schuch, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L14812, doi:10.1029/2008GL033984, 2008 ( PDF text 0.2 MB)
20. Investigating Lightning-to-Ionosphere Energy Coupling Based on VLF Lightning Propagation Characterization, Erin H. Lay, PhD Dissertation, Physics Dept. Univ. of Washington, 2008. ( PDF 2.6MB)
21. Lightning stroke distance estimation from single station observation and validation with WWLLN data, V. Ramachandran, J. N. Prakash, A. Deo, and S. Kumar, Ann. Geophys., 25, 15091517, 2007 ( PDF Text 0.6MB )
22. Subionospheric early VLF perturbations observed at Suva: VLF detection of red sprites in the day?, Sushil Kumar,1 Abhikesh Kumar,1 and Craig J. Rodger, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113, A03311, doi:10.1029/2007JA012734, 2008. ( PDF Text 4.3MB )
23.Rodger, C J, J B Brundell, R H Holzworth, and E H Lay, Growing Detection Efficiency of the World Wide Lightning Location Network, Am. Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc., Coupling of thunderstorms and lightning discharges to near-Earth space: Proceedings of the Workshop, Corte (France), 23-27 June 2008, 1118, 15-20, DOI:10.1063/1.3137706, 2009. ( PDF text 0.3 MB )
24. B. J. Hazelton, B. W. Grefenstette, D. M. Smith, J. R. Dwyer, X.-M. Shao, S. A. Cummer, T. Chronis, E. H. Lay, and R. H. Holzworth, Spectral dependence of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes on source distance, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 36, L01108, doi:10.1029/2008GL035906, 2009 ( PDF 0.2MB )
25. E.Williams, W. Lyons, Y. Hobara, V. Mushtak, N. Asencio, R. Boldi, J. Bor, S. Cummer, E. Greenberg, M. Hayakawa, R. Holzworth, V. Kotroni, J. Li, C. Morales, T. Nelson, C. Price, B. Russell, G. Satori K. Shirahata, Y. Takahashi, K. Yamashita, Ground-Based Detection of Sprites and their Parent Lightning Flashes over Africa during the 2006 AMMA Campaign, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, (accepted) 2009 ( PDF 1MB )
26. E Arnone, A Kero, C-F Enell, M Carlotti, Craig J Rodger, E Papandrea, N F Arnold, B M Dinelli, M Ridolfi and E Turunen, Seeking sprite-induced signatures in remotely sensed middle atmosphere NO2: latitude and time variations, IOP PUBLISHING Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 18 (2009) 034014 (10pp) doi:10.1088/0963-0252/18/3/034014 ( PDF 0.8 MB )
27. Robert Cifelli, Timothy Lang, Steven A. Rutledge, Nick Guy, Edward J. Zipser, Jon Zawislak, and Robert Holzworth, Characteristics of an African Easterly Wave Observed During NAMMA, Journal of Atmospheric Science (JAS) (accepted and in press), 2009. ( manuscript PDF 2.4 MB )
28. Sushil Kumar, Anil Deo, and V. Ramachandran, Nighttime D-region equivalent electron density determined from tweek sferics observed in the South Pacific Region, Earth Planets Space, 61, 905-911, 2009 ( PDF (0.3MB)
29. Colin Price, Mustafa Asfur and Yoav Yair, Maximum hurricane intensity preceded by increase in lightning frequency, Nature Geoscience Letters, Published Online: 6 APRIL 2009 | DOI: 10.1038/NGEO477 PDF 0.4 MB
30. Jeremy N. Thomas, Natalia N. Solorzano, Steven A. Cummer, and Robert H. Holzworth, Polarity and energetics of inner core lightning in three intense North Atlantic hurricanes, J. Geophysical Research, Oct 30, 2009, J. Geophys. Res. (2009JA014777) PDF 1.1MB
31. Eric J. Bucsela, Kenneth E. Pickering, Tabitha L. Huntemann, Ronald C. Cohen, Anne Perring, James F. Gleason, Richard J. Blakeslee, Rachel I. Albrecht, Robert Holzworth, James P. Cipriani, Dylana Vargas-Navarro, Ileana Mora-Segura, Alexia Pacheco-Hernandez, Sadi Lporte-Molina, Lightning-generated NOx seen by OMI during NASAs TC4 experiment, J. Geophys, Res (atmospheres) 2009JD013118R (accepted and in press), 2010 2.7 MB pdf
32. Orit Altaratz, Ilan Koren, Yoav Yair, and Colin Price, Lightning response to smoke from Amazonian fires, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 37, L07801, doi:10.1029/2010GL042679, 2010 PDF 0.4MB
33. Sergio F. Abarca, Kristen L. Corbosiero and Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., An evaluation of the Worldwide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) using the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) as ground truth, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, D18206, doi:10.1029/2009JD013411, 2010 PDF 1.2MB
34. Beirle, S., Huntrieser, H. and Wagner, T.: Direct satellite observation of lightning-produced NOx, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10(22), 10965-10986, 2010. PDF 8.5MB
35. Abarca, S. F., K. L. Corbosiero, The World Wide Lightning Location Network and Convective Activity in Tropical Cyclones, Monthly Weather Review, V. 139, p. 175, 2011. PDF 5.5MB
36. D. Abreu, D. Chandan, R. H. Holzworth, and K. Strong, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 3, 1143-1153, 2010 (Copernicus Publications for EGU) PDF (1.5MB)
37. V. Connaughton, M. S. Briggs, R. H. Holzworth, M. L. Hutchins, G. J. Fishman, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, V. L. Chaplin, P. N. Bhat, J. Greiner, A. von Kienlin, R. M. Kippen, C. A. Meegan, W. S. Paciesas, R. D. Preece, E. Cramer, J. R. Dwyer, and D. M. Smith, Associations between Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor terrestrial gamma ray flashes and sferics from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, A12307, doi:10.1029/2010JA015681, 2010 PDF (6.9MB)
38. Kumar, V. V, M.L.Parkinson, P.L.Dyson and G.B.Burns, Thunderstorm-associated responses in the vertical motion of the mid-latitude F-region ionosphere, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics,71 (2009), pp.787-793 PDF 0.6 MB
39. Holzworth, R. H., M.P. McCarthy, R. F. Pfaff, A. R. Jacobson, W. L. Wilkerson and D. E. Rowland, Lightning-generated whistler waves observed by probes on the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecast System satellite at low latitudes, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A06306,doi:10.1029/2010JA016198, 2011. PDF 1.3MB
40. Serge Soula, Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanya, Patrice Huet, Christelle Barthe, and Jozsef Bor, Gigantic Jets produced by an isolated tropical thunderstorm near Reunion Island, J. Geophysical Res., V.116,D19103, doi:10.1029/2010JD015581, 2011 PDF 3.7MB
41. PAN LunXiang, QIE XiuShu, LIU DongXia, WANG DongFang, and YANG Jing, The lightning activities in super typhoons over the Northwest Pacific, Sci China Earth Sci, 2010, 53: 1241-1248, doi: 10.1007/s11430-010-3034-z, PDF 1.0 MB
42. Smith, D. M., B. J. Hazelton, B. W. Grefenstette, J. R. Dwyer, R. H. Holzworth, and E. H. Lay, Terrestrial gamma ray flashes correlated to storm phase and tropopause height, J. of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, A00E49, doi:10.1029/2009JA014853, 2010 PDF 0.6MB
43. Virts, Katrina S., Joel A. Thornton, John M. Wallace, Michael L. Hutchins, Robert H. Holzworth, and Abram R. Jacobson, Daily, seasonal, and intraseasonal relationships between lightning and NO2 over the Maritime Continent, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2011GL048578 (in press), 2011 PDF 0.9 MB and Supplemental Material 0.8 MB
44. Collier, A. B., T. Gjesteland, and N. Øtgaard (2011), Assessing the power law distribution of TGFs, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A10320, doi:10.1029/2011JA016612 PDF 1MB
44b. Collier, A. B. and A. R. W. Hughes, Lightning and the African ITCZ, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 73 (2011) 2392–2398 PDF 2.3 MB
45. Singh, Rajesh, B. Veenadhari, Ajeet K. Maurya, Morris B. Cohen, Sushil Kumar, R. Selvakumaran, P. Pant, Abhay K. Singh and Umran S. Inan, D-region ionosphere response to the total solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 deduced from ELF/VLF tweek observations in the Indian sector, J. Geophys. Res., V. 116, A10301, doi:10.1029/2011JA016641, 2011. PDF 2.9MB
46. Gjesteland, T.; stgaard, N.; Collier, A. B.; Carlson, B. E.; Cohen, M. B.; Lehtinen, N. G. Confining the angular distribution of terrestrial gamma ray flash emission J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 116, No. A11, A11313 PDF 0.4MB
47. Burgesser, Rodrigo E., Maria G. Nicora and Eldo E. Avila, Characterization of the lightning activity of "Relampago del Catatumbo", JASTP, Accepted and in press, 2012. PDF 1.1MB
48.Collier, A. B., Delport, B., Hughes, A. R. W., Lichtenberger, J., Steinbach, P., Oster, J., and Rodger, C. J. Correlation between global lightning and whistlers observed at Tihany, Hungary. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, A07210. doi:10.1029/2008JA013863,2009 PDF 1.4MB
49. Oster, J., Collier, A. B., Hughes, A. R. W., Blomberg, L. G., & Lichtenberger, J. Spatial correlation between lightning strikes and whistler observations from Tihany, Hungary. South African Journal of Science, 105(5-6), 234-237, 2009. PDF 0.5MB
50. Collier, A. B., Bremner, S., Lichtenberger, J., Downs, J. R., Rodger, C. J., Steinbach, P., & McDowell, G. (2010). Global lightning distribution and whistlers observed at Dunedin, New Zealand. Annales Geophysicae, 28(2), 499-513. doi:10.5194/angeo-28-499-2010 PDF 6.1MB
51. Collier, A. B., Lichtenberger, J., Clilverd, M. A., Steinbach, P., & Rodger, C. J., Source Region for Whistlers Detected at Rothera, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, A03219. doi:10.1029/2010JA016197, 2011. PDF 2.5MB
52. Hutchins, M.L., R. H. Holzworth, C. J. Rodger and J. B. Brundell, Far field power of lightning strokes as measured by the World Wide Lightning Location Network, JTech (J. Atmos. and Ocean. Tech. (AMS), V.29,1102-1110, 2012. JTech paper (9 MB PDF)
53. Gjesteland, T.; Øtgaard, N.; Collier, A. B.; Carlson, B. E.; Eyles, C.; Smith, D. M. A new method reveals more TGFs in the RHESSI data, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 39, No. 5, L05102, 07 March 2012 PDF 0.4MB
54. Bovalo, C., Barthe, C., and Bègue, N.: A lightning climatology of the South-West Indian Ocean, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 2659-2670, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-2659-2012, 2012. Full Article
55. Hutchins, M. L., R. H. Holzworth, J. B. Brundell, and C. J. Rodger, Relative Detection Earthciency of the World Wide Lightning Location Network, Radio Science, 2012RS005049, 2012 3.6 MB (pdf)
56. Briggs, M.S., G. S. Fishman, V. Connaughton, P. N. Bhat, W. S. Paciesas, R. D. Preece1, C. Wilson-Hodge, V. L. Chaplin, R. M. Kippen, A. von Kienlin, C. Meegan, E. Bissaldi, J. R. Dwyer, D. M. Smith, R. H. Holzworth, J. E. Grove and A. Chekhmann, First results on terrestrial gamma ray flashes from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, J. Geophys. Res, V. 115, A07323, doi:doi:10.1029/2009JA015242, 2010. 0.9MB (pdf)
57. Briggs, M. S. et al (25 authors), Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes in the Fermi Era: Improved Observations and Analysis Methods, J. Geophys. Res, (in press) 2012. 7.2 MB (pdf)
58. Connaughton, V., (24 authors), Radio signals from electron beams in Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, Geophys. Res. Letters, (accepted), 2012. 0.6MB (pdf)
59. Ajeet K. Maurya, B.Veenadhari, Rajesh Singh, Sushil Kumar, M. B. Cohen, R Selvakumaran, Sneha Gokani, P. Pant, A. K. Singh, Umran S Inan, Nighttime D-region electron density measurements from ELF-VLF tweek radio atmospherics recorded at low latitudes, J. Geophys. Res., In press, 2012 5.2MB (pdf)
60. Virts, Katrina S., John M. Wallace, Michaale L. Hutchins, and Robert H. Holzworth, A new ground-based, hourly global lightning climatology, BAMS (AMS), pp.1831-91, Sept 2013, ( DOI 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00082 ). 2.1MB (pdf)
61. Solorzano, N.N., J. N. Thomas, J. A. Weinman*, W. Keane, M. L. Hutchins and R. H. Holzworth, WWLLN lightning and satellite microwave radiometrics at 37 to 183 GHz: Implications for convection and thundercloud charging in the broad tropics, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121,12.298-318,doi:10.1002/ 2016JD025374,Sept 2016. 6.9 MB (pdf)
62. S. Xiong, M. S. Briggs, V. Connaughton, G. J. Fishman, D. Tierney, G. Fitzpatrick, S. Foley, S. Guiriec, R. H. Holzworth, and M. L. Hutchins, Location prediction of electron TGFs, J. Geophys., Res., V.117, A02309, doi:10.1029/2011JA017085, 2012., 6.2MB (pdf)
63. Michael A. Haddad, Vladimir A. Rakov, and Steven A. Cummer, New measurements of lightning electric fields in Florida: Waveform characteristics, interaction with the ionosphere, and peak current estimates, J. Geophys. Res., V. 117, D10101, doi:10.1029/2011JD017196, 2012. 2.5MB (pdf)
64. Kucienska, B., G. B. Raga, and R. Romero-Centeno, High lightning activity in maritime clouds near Mexico, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 12, 2817-2852, 2012 (Under review), PDF or link.
65. De Boer, A. M., Collier, A. B., Caballero, R., 2013, Processes driving thunderstorms over the Agulhas Current, J. of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere. DOI:10.1002/jgrd.50238. PDF (3.4MB)
66. Holzworth, R. H. M. P. McCarthy, R. F. Pfaff, A. R. Jacobson, W. L. Willcockson, and D. E. Rowland, Lightning-generated whistler waves observed by probes on the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecast System satellite at low latitudes, J. Geophys. Res., V.116, A06306, doi:10.1029/2010JA016198, 2011 PDF 1.4MB
67. Hutchins, M.L. R. H. Holzworth, K. S. Virts, J. M. Wallace, and S. Heckman, Radiated VLF energy differences of land and oceanic lightning, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 40, 1-5, doi:10.1002/grl.50406, 2013, PDF (1.8MB)
68. Rudlosky, S. D. and D. T. Shea, Evaluating WWLLN performance relative to TRMM/LIS, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 40, 1-5, doi:10.1002/grl.50428, 2013, 0.6 MB PDF
69. Jacobson, A. R., R. H. Holzworth, R. F. Pfaff, and M. P. McCarthy, Study of oblique whistlers in the low-latitude ionosphere, jointly with the C/NOFS satellite and theWorld-Wide Lightning Location Network, Ann. Geophys., 29, 851-863, doi:10.5194/angeo-29-851-2011, 2011 2.9MB PDF
70. Burkholder, Brian S., Michael L. Hutchins, Michael P. McCarthy, Robert F. Pfaff, and Robert H. Holzworth, Attenuation of lightning-produced sferics in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide and low-latitude ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., V. 118, 3692-3699,doi:10.1002/jgra.50351, 2013 Pdf 0.6MB
71. Hutchins, M. L. Abram R. Jacobson, Robert H. Holzworth and James B. Brundell, Azimuthal dependence of VLF propagation, J. Geophys. Res. V. 118, 1-5, doi 10.1002/jgra.50544, 2013 Pdf 0.5 MB
72. Kumar, Abhikesh and Sushil Kumar, Tracking of tropical cyclones and their intensity changes in the South Pacific region using World-wide lightning location network, Proceedings of Pacific Inter-Science Congress, USP, 2013 0.3 MB (PDF)
73. Hutchins, Michael L., Robert H. Holzworth, and James B. Brundell, Diurnal variation of the global electric circuit from clustered thunderstorms, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 119 (1), 620-629, DOI 10.1002/2013JA019593, Jan 2014 PDF
74. Reinhart, B.,H. Fuelberg, R. Blakesley, D. Mach, A. Heymsfield, A. Bansemer, S. L. Duren, S. Tanelli. G. Heymsfield and B. Lambrighsen, 2014: Understanding the relationships between lightning, cloud microphysics, and airborne radar-derived storm structure during Hurricane Karl (2010). Mon. Wea. Rev, 142, 590-605 PDF (2.6MB)
75. Heue,K.-P, H. Riede1, D. Walter1, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, T. Wagner, U. Friess, U. Platt, A. Zahn, G. Stratmann, and H. Ziereis, CARIBIC DOAS observations of nitrous acid and formaldehyde in a large convective cloud, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.[doi:10.5194/acpd-13-24343-2013], 13, 24343-24403, 2013 PDF 1.6 MB
76. Kumar, A., S. Kumar, M. Hayakawa, F. Menk, Subionospheric VLF perturbations observed at low latitude associated with earthquake from Indonesia region, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 102 (2013) 71-80. PDF 2.9MB
77. Kumar, S. and A. Kumar, Lightning-associated VLF perturbations observed at low latitude: Occurrence and scattering characteristics, Earth Planets Space, 65, 25-37, 2013 PDF 0.8MB
78. Jacobson, Abram R., Robert H. Holzworth, Robert Pfaff, Roderick Heelis, and Patrick Colestock, A method to estimate whistler wave vector from polarization using three-component electric field data, Radio Science, V49, DOI 10.1002/2013RS005335, 31 JAN 2014 1.9 MB pdf
79. Garreaud, Rene D., M. Gabriela Nicora Rodrigo E. Burgesser, and Eldo E E. Avila, Lightning in Western Patagonia, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD021160. 3.2MB
80. Claire Antel, Andrew B. Collier, János Lichtenberger, and Craig J. Rodger, Investigating Dunedin Whistlers using Volcanic Lightning, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2014. DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060332
81. Iwasaki, H., Preliminary Study on Features of Lightning Discharge around Japan Using World Wide Lightning Location Network Data, SOLA, 2014, Vol. 10, 98-102, doi:10.2151/sola.2014-020, 4.9 MB (pdf)
82. Hobara, Yasuhide, Takahiro Inoue, Masashi Hayakawa and Kazuo Shiokawa, Deducing Locations and Charge Moment Changes of Lightning Discharges by ELF Network Observations in Japan, IEEJ Transactions on Power and Energy Vol.133 No.12 pp.994-1000 DOI: 10.1541/ieejpes.133.994, 2013. PDF (2.6MB)
Marisaldi, M., et al. (2014), Properties of terrestrial gamma ray flashes detected by AGILE MCAL below 30 MeV J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 119, 1337-1355, doi:10.1002/2013JA019301 Feb 2014 PDF 1.0MB
Tristan James Hall ,The Transport of Ship Emissions in the Strait of Malacca Using a High-Resolution WRF Simulation and Low-Resolution Gdas Data Coupled with Hysplit, MS Thesis, Florida State University, April 2014. pdf (18MB !)
M. Gabriela Nicora a? , Eduardo J. Quel a, Rodrigo E. Büerb, Eldo E. Áilab, Alejandro Rosalesc,Jacobo O. Salvador d, RaúEliaa, LA ACTIVIDAD ELÉTRICA ATMOSFÉICA EN ARGENTINA. ESTIMACION DE LA TASA DE MORTALIDAD ANUAL POR ACCI�� DE CAIDAS DE RAYOS, ANALES AFA Vol. 25 N.4 (151-156), Nov 2014 PDF 033MB
Blanc, E., T. Farges, A. Le Pichon, and P. Heinrich, Ten year observations of gravity waves from thunderstorms in western Africa, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 6409-6418, doi:10.1002/, 2013JD020499 JUN 2014 PDF 1.3MB
BRAD REINHART,* HENRY FUELBERG,* RICHARD BLAKESLEE,1 DOUGLAS MACH,# ANDREW HEYMSFIELD,@ AARON BANSEMER,@ STEPHEN L. DURDEN,& SIMONE TANELLI,& GERALD HEYMSFIELD,** AND BJORN LAMBRIGTSEN, Understanding the Relationships between Lightning, Cloud Microphysics, and Airborne Radar-Derived Storm Structure during Hurricane Karl (2010), Monthly Weather Review, V. 142, pp.590-605, DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00008.1, 2014 PDF 2.6MB
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(note, above not in chronological order, quite. maybe sometime I'll do that. Bob)