Lightning Research Group. LRG

2022

PAPERS

  1. P. Fontanes, J. Montanyà, M. Arcanjo, C. Guerra-Garcia, G. Tobella (2022), Experimental investigation of the electrification of wind turbine blades in fair-weather and artificial charge-compensation to mitigate the effects, J. of Electrostatics, 115, doi.org/10.1016/j.elstat.2021.103669.

  2. Michael J. Peterson, Timothy J. Lang, Timothy Logan, Cheong Wee Kiong, Morne Gijben, Ron Holle, Ivana Kolmasova, Martino Marisaldi, Joan Montanya, Sunil D. Pawar, Daile Zhang, Manola Brunet, and Randall S. Cerveny (2022), New WMO Certified Megaflash Lightning Extremes for Flash Distance (768 km) and Duration (17.01 seconds) Recorded from Space, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0254.1 Link to publication

  3. P. Fontanes, J. Montanyà, M. Arcanjo, M. Urbani, C. Asensio and C. Guerra-Garcia (2022), On the Induced Currents to Wind Turbines by the Earth’s Atmospheric Electric Potential: Experiments With Drones, in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 21277-21290, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3152777. Link to publication.

  4. Urbani, M., Montanyá, J., van der Velde, O. A., Arcanjo, M., & López, J. A. (2022). Multi-stroke positive cloud-to-ground lightning sharing the same channel observed with a VHF broadband interferometer. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL097272. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097272  Link to publcation

  5. Martell B. C., P. Fontanes, J. Montanyà and C. Guerra-Garcia (2022), Flight Demonstration of Net Electric Charge Control of Aircraft Using Corona Discharge, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2022.3178069

  6. van der velde, O., Montanyà, J., López, J. (2022), Meteorological factors in the production of gigantic jets by tropical thunderstorms in Colombia, Atmospheric Research, vol. 277, doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106316   Link to publication

  7. Levi D. Boggs, Doug Mach, Eric Bruning, Ningyu Liu, Oscar A. van der Velde, Joan Montanyá,Steve Cummer, Kevin Palivec,Vanna Chmielewski, Don MacGorman, and Michael Peterson (2022), Upward propagation of gigantic jets revealed by 3D radio and optical mapping, Science Adv., vol 8, issue 31, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl8731  Link to publication

  8. Nicolau Pineda, Patricia Altube, Fermín J. Alcasena, Enric Casellas, Helen San Segundo, Joan Montanyà (2022), Characterising the holdover phase of lightning-ignited wildfires in Catalonia, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 324, doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109111Link to publication

  9. J. Montanyà, J.A. López, O. van der Velde, G. Solà, D. Romero, C. Morales, S. Visacro, M.M.F. Saba, S.J. Goodman, E. Williams, M. Peterson, N. Pineda, M. Arcanjo, D. Aranguren (2022),Potential use of space-based lightning detection in electric power systems, Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 213, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2022.108730. Link to publication

CONFERENCES

  1.  P. Fontanes, J. Montanyà, M. Arcanjo, C. Guerra-Garcia, G. Tobella (2022). Experimental investigation of the electrification of wind turbine blades in fair-weather and artificial charge-compensation to mitigate the effects. Electrostatics 2022, Wroclaw, Poland, 28-31 March, 2022.
  2. J. Montanyà, C. Morales, M. Saba, S. Visacro, J. A. López, N. Pineda and O. van der Velde (2022), Analisys of GLM detections of lightning flashes to tall towers, 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022.
  3. J. Montanyà, P. Fontanés, Earle Williams, Marcelo Arcanjo, Michele Urbani, David Romero, Ricard Horta, Jesús A. López, Oscar van der Velde (2022), Simulation of lightning using vertical wires deployed by drones: the effect of seawater and land on the charging currents, 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022.
  4. P. Fontanes, B. Martell, H. Candela, J. Montanya, C. Guerra-Garcia (2022), Study of the transitory response of a UAV equipped with an active electrostatic charge control system based on corona discharge, 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022.
  5. S. Soula, E. Defer, N. Pineda, J. Montanyà., O. van der Velde (2022), Detection Efficiency of ISS/LIS in Different Conditions of Storm Development in Catalonia (Spain), 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022. 
  6. O. van der Velde, Joan Montanyà, Jesús Lopez, David Romero, Camilo Younes, John Taborda, Daniel Aranguren, Albert Martis (2022), 13 Years of Gigantic Jet Observation in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Colombia: What Have We Learned About Their Meteorological Conditions?, 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022. 
  7. M. Arcanjo, J. Montanyà, P. Fontanes, M. Urbani, V. Lorenzo (2022), On the features of corona discharges from grounded rods, 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022.
  8. J. A. Roncancio, J. A. López, J. Montanyà, O. van der Velde, Optical emissions during development of negative stepped and positive leaders in cloud-to-ground lightning, 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022.
  9. G. Solà, J. A. López, J. Montanyà, N. Pineda (2022), A new concept of lightning hotspot, 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022.
  10. J. A. López, J. Montanyà, O. van der Velde, S. Soula, T. Neubert (2022), Optical features of positive cloud-to-ground lightning associated with TLE events and long continuing currents from space, 17th Intl. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity (ICAE 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-24 June 2022.
  11. J. Montanya, P. Fontanes,M. Arcanjo, M. Urbani,E. Williams, D. Romero,R. Horta, J. A. López, O.van der Velde, N.Pineda (2022), Small scale simulation of lightning using vertical wires deployed by drones: on the land and sea peak current asymetry, in proc. of the 36th Intl. Conf. on Lightning Protection (ICLP 2022), 2-7 October 2022, Cape Town, South Africa.
  12. S. Ardila, E. Soto, J. A. López, J. Montanya (2022), Lightning interaction with tall structures in tropical zones, in proc. of the 36th Intl. Conf. on Lightning Protection (ICLP 2022), 2-7 October 2022, Cape Town, South Africa.
  13. J. Montanya (2022), Application of space-based lightning detection in power systems, Keynote lecture in the 36th Intl. Conf. on Lightning Protection (ICLP 2022), 2-7 October 2022, Cape Town, South Africa.
  14. J. Montanya (2022), Electric, atmospheric and microphysical properties of thunderstorms producing lightning to wind turbines, Keynote lecture in the Intl. Conf. on Lightning and Static Electricity (ICOLSE 2022), 12-15 September 2022, Madrid, Spain.
  15. P. Fontanés, B. Martell, H. Candela, J. Montanya and C. Guerra-Garcia (2022), experimental study of the charge saturation levels of an aircraft with an active electrostatic charge control system, in proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Lightning and Static Electricity (ICOLSE 2022), 12-15 September 2022, Madrid, Spain .
  16. N.Pineda, F. Fabró, J. Montanyà, J. A. López, G. Solà and O. Rodríguez (2022), Winter lightning triggered by wind-turbines: the case of snowstorm filomena, in proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Lightning and Static Electricity (ICOLSE 2022), 12-15 September 2022, Madrid, Spain.
  17. H. Candela, P. Fontanes, M. Urbani, J. Montanya, C. Guerra-Garcia (2022), A numerical solver to assess the impact of wind, geometry, and altitude on artificial charge control of aircraft using corona discharge, in proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Lightning and Static Electricity (ICOLSE 2022), 12-15 September 2022, Madrid, Spain.
  18. Martino Marisaldi, Michele Urbani, Xue Bai, Alessandro Ursi, James Smith, Paolo Cristofanelli, Francescopiero Calzolari, Joan Montanyà, Enrico Virgilli, Martin Fullekrug, A. Tiberia, Stefano Dietrich, Marco Tavani, Nikolai Ostgaard (2022), Interferometric Lightning Observations at Mount Cimone, Italy, in Association with the Gamma-Flash Experiment, AE33A-01 Oral, AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA, 12-16 Dec. 2022.
  19. Joan Montanyà, Jesús López Trujillo, Jaime Morán-Domínguez, Michele Urbani, Oscar Van Der Velde, Javier Navarro-Gonzalez, Reglero Victor, Torsten Neubert,Nikolai Ostgaard (2022), An evaluation of GLM optical pulse detection using ASIM MMIA, AE23A-08 Oral, AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA, 12-16 Dec. 2022.
  20. Michele Urbani, Jose Andres Roncancio, Joan Montanya, Oscar Van Der Velde, Marcelo Arcanjo, Jesús López Trujillo, David Romero (2022), Optical Emissions at 337 and 777 nm in Natural Lightning Observed in Coincidence with a VHF Broadband Interferometer, AE33A-03 Oral, AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA, 12-16 Dec. 2022.
  21. Javier Navarro-Gonzalez, Paul Connell, Christopher Eyles, Reglero Victor, Jesús López, Joan Montanya, Martino Marisaldi, Andrew Mezentsev, Anders Lindanger, David Sarria, Nikolai Ostgaard, Freddie Christiansen, Olivier Chanrion, Torsten Neubert (2022), Anisotropy Distribution of TGFs Couples: Central America Region is the Key, AE21A-03 Oral online, AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA, 12-16 Dec. 2022.
  22. Oscar Van Der Velde, Jesús López, Joan Montanya, Olivier Chanrion, Torsten Neubert, Reglero Victor, Nikolai Ostgaard, Serge Soula (2022), Sprites Recorded by the Modular Multispectral Imaging Array of ASIM, AE15A-1444 Poster, AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA, 12-16 Dec. 2022.