Lightning Research


  • W. W. Hager
    StormAnalysis Version 1.2: A suite of MATLAB programs for analyzing and visualizing VHF pulse data and strike locations for the flashes in a thunderstorm, May 2, 2011.

  • W. W. Hager, B. C. Aslan, R. G. Sonnenfeld, Timothy D. Crum, John D. Battles, Michael T. Holborn, and Ruth Ron,
    Three Dimensional Charge Structure of a Mountain Thunderstorm, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010, DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013241

  • W. W. Hager and B. C. Aslan,
    The Change in Electric Potential Due to Lightning,
    Mathematic Modeling and Numerical Analysis (ESAIM: M2AN), 42 (2008), 887-901.

  • B. C. Aslan, W. W. Hager, and S. Moskow,
    A Generalized Eigenproblem for the Laplacian Which Arises in Lightning,
    Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 341 (2008), 1028-1041 (doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.11.007)

  • W. W. Hager, R. G. Sonnenfeld, B. C. Aslan, G. Lu, W. P. Winn, and W. L. Boeck,
    Analysis of Charge Transport During Lightning Using Balloon Borne Electric Field Sensors and LMA, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112 (2007), D18204, doi:10.1029/2006JD008187

  • W. W. Hager,
    A discrete model for the lightning discharge,
    Journal of Computational Physics, 144 (1998), 137-150.

  • W. W. Hager and D. Wang,
    An analysis of errors in the location, current, and velocity of lightning,
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 100 (1995), pp. 25,721-25,729.

  • W. W. Hager, J. Nisbet, and J. Kasha,
    The evolution and discharge of electric fields within a thunderstorm,
    Journal of Computational Physics, 82 (1989), 193--217.

  • W. W. Hager, J. S. Nisbet, J. R. Kasha, and W.-C. Shann,
    Simulations of Electric Fields within a Thunderstorm,
    Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 46 (1989), pp. 3542-3558.

  • W. W. Hager, Updating the inverse of a matrix,
    SIAM Review, 31 (1989), pp. 221-239.

  • Lightning Pictures

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