Martin A. Uman Books

Answers questions about Franklin's experiment, lightning rods, safety considerations, property damage, ball lightning, thunder, and thunderstorms

Focusing on the critical issue of lightning strikes, this text explores their devastating impacts, including significant power failures and fatalities in the U.S. The author provides a moderately technical overview of lightning protection, detailing its physical behavior, types of damage, and effective detection and warning systems. Various methods for deflecting or eliminating lightning are discussed alongside U.S. and international standards. This comprehensive guide serves as an essential resource for professionals in meteorology, engineering, architecture, and fire safety, among others.

Absorbing monograph by expert sets forth most of known properties of lightning: cloud and lightning charges, stepped leader, return stroke, dart leader, lightning on other planets, thunder, more. 144 illustrations.