Lightning Research Group. LRG

2018

PAPERS

  1. M. Arrayás, D. Cuberó, J. Montanyà, R. Seviour and J.L. Trueba (2018), Wakefield acceleration in planetary atmospheres: A possible source of MeV electrons. The collisionless case, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 172, July 2018, p. 69-74, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2018.03.019.
  2. Earle Williams, Yakun Liu, Joan Montanya, James Bales, Robert Golka, Mike Valente (2018), Avulsion in the Lightning River: Another Look at M-Components in the Context of a Laboratory Arc, IEEJ Transactions on Power and Energy, Volume 138 Issue 5 pp. 352-358, https://doi.org/10.1541/ieejpes.138.352.

  3. N. Pineda, J. Montanyà, A. Salvador, O. van der Velde and J. A. López (2018), Thunderstorm characteristics favouring downward and upward lightning to wind turbines, Atmospheric Research, Volume 214, 1 December 2018, Pages 46-63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.07.012.

  4. Gordillo Vázquez, F.; Passas, M.; Luque, A.; Sánchez, J.; Van Der Velde, O.; Montaña, J. (2018), High spectral resolution spectroscopy of sprites: A natural probe of the mesosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123 - 4, pp. 2336 – 2346, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD028126

CONFERENCES


  1. J. A. López, J. Montanyà, O van der Velde, D. Romero, D. Aranguren, H. Torres, J. Taborda, E. Soto J. Rodríguez-Ferreira, V. Reglero and J. Navarro, The Colombia ASIM Site: Lightning Mapping, TLE observations and high energy radiation from lightning, AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington, DC, USA.

  2. Albert Salvador, Nicolau Pineda, Joan Montanyà, Glòria Solà and Oscar van der Velde, Thunderstorm patterns that may be useful to warn about lightning threats to wind turbines and other tall structures, Int. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity, 2018, Nara, Japan.

  3. Joan Montanyà, Víctor March, Oscar van der Velde, Jesús A. López, David Romero1, Pol Fontanes, Michele Urbani, Measurement of electric potential of isolated vertical conductive wires pulled by a drone under fair weather conditions, XVI Int. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity, 17-22 June 2018, Nara, Japan.

  4. F. Fabró, Joan Montanyà, Oscar van der Velde, E. Williams, Understanding the global TGF/lightning ratio asymmetry, XVI Int. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity, 17-22 June 2018, Nara, Japan.

  5. Joan Montanyà, Ferran Fabró, Oscar van der Velde, Jesús A. López and Víctor March, Simultaneous X ray and microwave emissions from natural lightning and in high voltage laboratory sparks, XVI Int. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity, 17-22 June 2018, Nara, Japan.

  6. Mostajabi Amirhossein, Nicolau Pineda, David Romero, Mohammad Azadifar, Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanyà, Marcos Rubinstein, Farhad Rachidi, LMA campaign for the observation of upward lightning at the Säntis Tower (Säntis Mountain, 2502 m ASL, Switzerland) during summer 2017: preliminary results, XVI Int. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity, 17-22 June 2018, Nara, Japan.

  7. Oscar A. van der Velde, Joan Montanya, Jesus A. Lopez, Automated analysis and statistics of lightning leader speed, local flash rates and electric charge structure in thunderstorms, XVI Int. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity, 17-22 June 2018, Nara, Japan.

  8. Oscar A. van der Velde, Joan Montanya, Jesus A. Lopez, Evolution of Gigantic Jets at high temporal and spatial resolution, XVI Int. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity, 17-22 June 2018, Nara, Japan.

  9. J. Montanyà, J. A. López, P. Fontanes, M. Urbani, O. van der Velde and D. Romero, Using tethered drones to investigate ESD in wind turbine blades during fair and thunderstorm weather, 34 Intl. Conf. On Lightning Protection (ICLP 2018), 2-7 September, 2018, Rzeszow, Poland.

  10. N. Pineda, Joan Montanya, D. Romero, J. Bech, E. Casellas, S. González, Meteorological aspects of winter upward lightning from an instrumented tower in the Pyrenees, 34 Intl. Conf. On Lightning Protection (ICLP 2018), 2-7 September, 2018, Rzeszow, Poland.

  11. Antonio Sunjerga, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Nicolau Pineda, David Romero, Oscar van der Velde, Mohammad Azadifar, Marcos Rubinstein, Joan Montanya, Gerhard Diendorfer, Farhad Rachidi, On the Classification of Self-Triggered versus Other-Triggered Lightning Flashes, 34 Intl. Conf. On Lightning Protection (ICLP 2018), 2-7 September, 2018, Rzeszow, Poland.

  12. Yaru Mendez, Troels Sørensen, Andy Plumer, Josef Birkl, S. F. Madsen, Joan Montanya, The 2018 Revision of The Standard IEC 61400-24: Lightning Protection of Wind Turbines, 34 Intl. Conf. On Lightning Protection (ICLP 2018), 2-7 September, 2018, Rzeszow, Poland.

  13. Amirhossein Mostajabi; Nicolau Pineda ; David Romero ; Mohammad Azadifar ; Oscar Van der Velde ; Joan Montanyà, M. Rubinstein, F. Rachidi, LMA Observation of Upward Flashes at Santis Tower: Preliminary Results, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and 2018 IEEE Asia-Pacific Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC/APEMC), 14-18 May 2018, Suntec City, Singapore.

  14. J. Montanyà, X-rays by high voltage laboratory sparks and lightning: introduction to experimental techniques, 1st SAINT Summer School, Denmark, 2018.

  15. V. Lorenzo and J. Montanyà, Introduction to lightning protection of wind turbines, 1st SAINT Summer School, Denmark, 2018.

  16. E. Defer, S. Coquillat, P. de Guibert, F. Erdmann, D. Lambert, J.-P. Pinty, S. Prieur,V. Pont, E. Richard, O. Caumont, L. Labatut, M. Nuret, O. Roussot, M. Buguet, P. Blanchet, P. Lalande, G. Labrouche, S. Pedeboy, J.-Y. Lojou, A. Schwarzenboeck,, J. Delanoë, C. Caudoux , C. Le Gac, L. Guiraud, J.-P. Desbios, D. Duchanoy, C. Calas, T. Farges, F. Trompier, J. Dye, P. Goloub, N. Pineda, J. Montanya, D. Romero, O. van der Velde, An update of the airborne campaign of the EXAEDRE (EXploiting new Atmospheric Electricity Data for Research and the Environment) project, 11th Hymex Workshop, 29 May - 01 June 2018, Lecce, Italy.