VISIT On-Line Lightning Resources
VISIT On-Line Lightning Resources


The goal of this web site is to provide forecasters with a wealth of information on lightning meteorology and lightning applications


  • VISIT Lightning Training Sessions
    • - "CONUS CG Lightning Activity"
    - student guide
    - download VISIT teletraining session
    - web-based teletraining session

     - "Lightning Meteorology I: Electrification and Lightning Activity in Typical Storms"
    - student guide
    - download VISIT teletraining session
    - web-based teletraining session with embedded talking points

     - "Lightning Meteorology II: Anomalous Storms and Advanced Theory"
    - student guide
    - download VISIT teletraining session
    - web-based teletraining session

  • VISIT Lightning Links
    • - list of web sites organized into the following topics
    - tutorials
    - general information
    - forecast utility
    - real-time observations
    - short-term forecasts
    - research
    - field programs
    - safety
    - detection systems
    - literature references
    - glossary

  • VISIT Lightning Forum
    • - forum for dialog between operational and research meteorologists

  • Publications
    • - "Lightning Meteorology I: An Introductory Course on Forecasting with Lightning Data" - summarizes the VISIT lightning teletraining session:
    "Lightning Meteorology I: Electrification and Lightning Activity by Storm Scale"
     - conference paper by Bard Zajac and John Weaver
    - presented at Symposium on AWIPS, 2002 AMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
    - PDF file (292 KB)
     - "Lightning Meteorology II: An Advanced Course on Forecasting with Lightning Data" - summarizes the VISIT lightning teletraining session:
    "Lightning Meteorology II: Anomalous Storms and Advanced Theory"
     - conference paper by Bard Zajac, John Weaver and Dan Lindsey
    - presented at 21st Conference on Severe Local Storms, 2002, AMS, San Antonio, TX
    - PDF file (221 KB)
     - "Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity in the Contiguous United States from 1995-1999" - documents spatial, annual and summertime diurnal distributions
    - idenitifies relationships between storm morphology and lightning activity
    using radar-lightning case studies
     - paper by Bard Zajac and Steve Rutledge
    - published in the May 2001 issue of Monthly Weather Review
    - PDF file (1,200 KB)
     - "Lightning Training from the Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training: 1999-2001" - summarizes VISIT lightning teletraining and on-line resources
    - conference paper by Bard Zajac, John Weaver and Dan Bikos
    - presented at 18th Conference on IIPS, 2002 AMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
    - PDF file (120 KB)

    Send email to Dan Lindsey or John Weaver.


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