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- Single resource on lightning fatalities and injuries currently widely dispersed across many disciplines
- Shows how it is possible to reduce the large loss of life and productivity from lightning in the developing world
- Combines recent knowledge of lightning, lightning detection, warning and safety into a single resource
Part of the book series: Springer Natural Hazards (SPRINGERNAT)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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How Lightning Kills, Injures, and Causes Damage
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Estimates of People Killed and Injured by Lightning
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When and Where Lightning Occurs
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How to Reduce Global Lightning Casualties
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network Inc. (ACLENet), River Forest, USA
Mary Ann Cooper
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Holle Meteorology and Photography, Oro Valley, USA
Ronald L. Holle
About the authors
Ron Holle is a meteorological consultant in Oro Valley, Arizona. Ron has worked extensively in meteorological education issues, particularly those relating to lightning safety and the demographics of lightning victims and damages and is recognized as the world expert on the demographics of lightning injury. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in meteorology from Florida State University and took additional coursework at the University of Miami. He has authored or co-authored 64 formally-reviewed journal papers, 12 books and book chapters, and 310 informal papers. He worked with NOAA research laboratories in Norman, Oklahoma, Boulder, Colorado, Coral Gables, Florida, and Silver Spring, Maryland as well as more recently with Vaisala in Tucson. He has analysed cloud-to-ground and cloud lightning data from ground-based detection networks as they relate to various meteorological phenomena. He participated in meteorological field programs in Florida, the Caribbean, and West Africa. Mr. Holle served on the scientific organizing committees of the International Lightning Detection Conferences and International Lightning Meteorology Conferences from 2002 through 2014. He was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2009 and received the Dr. T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the National Weather Association in 2008.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reducing Lightning Injuries Worldwide
Authors: Mary Ann Cooper, Ronald L. Holle
Series Title: Springer Natural Hazards
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77563-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77561-6Published: 13 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08480-6Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77563-0Published: 01 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-0656
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0664
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 233
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Environmental Physics