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Each system used for lightning detection has its own limitations.

He holds five patents, four in the area of lightning detection and location.

Personal lightning detection systems are also available, which may provide strike time, azimuth, and distance.

The company's new device has a pager that receives alerts from a lightning detection network.

Basil Schonland, a world-recognized authority on lightning detection and analysis, was appointed to head the effort.

The new millennium was kicked-off with yet more business acquisitions - in wind profiling, lightning detection and aviation weather.

Main Street Weather: Local conditions/forecasts, radar, lightning detection, webcam etc.

Lightning Detection Systems have been developed and may be deployed in locations where lightning strikes present special risks, such as public parks.

In addition to ground-based lightning detection, several instruments aboard satellites have been constructed to observe lightning distribution.

Awarua is also used by a lightning detection project measuring lightning up to 6000 km away and by a project collecting radio noise data.

When using the lightning detection system, lightning holes (uncovered in 2004) correspond to where a BWER would be seen on radar.

The BWER has been noted on radar imagery of severe thunderstorms since 1973 and has a lightning detection system equivalent known as a lightning hole.

Sensors from the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network indicated at least two cloud-to-ground lightning strikes near the mine.

The first personal lightning detection and mapping devices also became available and the first online radar data was offered by private corporations or, at first with delays, with free services.

Usually in conjunction with data sources such as weather radar and satellites, lightning detection systems are sometimes utilized to pinpoint where thunderstorms are occurring (and to identify lightning hazard).

Lightning detection systems, are coming online, both satellite and land based, however their accuracy is still measured in the hundreds to thousands of feet, rarely allowing them to pinpoint the exact location of the termination.

In the US lightning monitoring is done by the National Lightning Detection Network, part of NASA's National Severe Storms Laboratory.

The plan will include a joint research project with Florida State University and will be using KSC's Lightning Detection and Ranging (LDAR) network.

The ALDIS (Austrian Lightning Detection & Information System) maintains the Austrian Lightning Research Station Gaisberg next to the transmitter [1].

Large airliners are more likely to use weather radar than lightning detectors, since weather radar can detect smaller storms that also cause turbulence; however, modern avionics systems often include lightning detection as well, for additional safety.

A Matter of Control The company also became the first utility in the country to subscribe to a new lightning detection system that allows it to deploy repair crews to areas where they will be needed, Ms. Harris said.

We have plugged into the National Lightning Detection Network, which allows us to continously monitor the path of thunderstorms across New York and Connecticut and move our crews to probable trouble locations before the storms even hit.

Examples of MFD overlay information include the aircraft's current route plan, weather information from either on-board radar or lightning detection sensors or ground-based sensors, e.g., NEXRAD, restricted airspace and aircraft traffic.

In addition to radar and lightning detection, observations and extended radar pictures (such as NEXRAD) are now available through satellite data connections, allowing pilots to see weather conditions far beyond the range of their own in-flight systems.

Dr. Orville, who directs the National Lightning Detection Network, said one explanation for the variation is that the thunderclouds that generate the electrical charges grow larger in volume in the lower latitudes through the combination of heat and moisture.