This reference material on lightning and lightning protection was complied by
Dave Bowker, K1FK and distributed to TowerTalk reflector subscribers by email
request due to it's rather massive content.  The original bibliography was
prepared in the mid - 1980's, however most of this material is still accessible
through college, university, and corporate technical libraries, through the
interlibrary loan program, and in U.S. Government archives.  Some of the material is
NOT directly applicable to earth based installations due to the original project
for which it was compiled.

This is not an all encompassing listing as it was developed from reviewed
material for a specific project many years prior to my retirement from the aerospace
industry.  I've added some more recent material, including www sites where
additional information can be obtained.

Enjoy the reading!

Dave, K1FK
Fort Kent, ME
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WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF THUNDERSTORM DAYS, Part I, WMO/OMM No. 21, TP. 6, World
Meteorological Organization, Geneva Switzerland, 1953.

WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF THUNDERSTORM DAYS, Part II, WMO/OMM No. 21, TP. 21, World
Meteorological Organization, Geneva Switzerland, 1956.

Guttman, N.B., STUDY OF WORLD-WIDE OCCURRENCE OF FOG, THUNDERSTORMS, SUPER
COOLED LOW CLOUDS AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES, U.S. Naval Weather Service Command,
NAVAIR 50-1C-60, December 1971.

Pierce, E.T., A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THUNDERSTORM DAYS AND LIGHTNING FLASH
DENSITY, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, Vol. 1, 1968.

Pierce, E.T., LATITUDINAL VARIATION OF LIGHTNING PARAMETERS, Applied
Meteorology, Vol. 9, 1970.

Pierce, E.T., THE THUNDERSTORM AS A SOURCE OF ATMOSPHERIC NOISE AT FREQUENCIES
BETWEEN 1 AND 100 KHZ, Stanford Research Institute, Special Technical Report
No. 2, SRI Project 7045, June 1969.

Military Handbook, GROUNDING, BONDING, AND SHIELDING FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENTS
AND FACILITIES, MIL-HDBK-419A, Vol I and II, 29 December 1987.  Volume 1
addresses basic theory, Volume II treats practical applications.  An excellent
reference for protection of facilities from lightning and the treatment of ground
systems.  Contains excellent "how to" material in Vol. 2.

MIL-HDBK-237, ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY/INTERFERENCE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.

Erling D. Sunde, EARTH CONDUCTION EFFECTS IN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS, Dover
Publications, NY, 1968.  (An excellent reference on all aspects of communication and
power systems interrelationship with earth resistivity, grounding, corrosion,
inductive effects, and lightning disturbances. Highly analytical and
mathematical).

Uman, M.A., LIGHTNING, McGraw-Hill, Inc., Advanced Physics Monograph Series,
1969.

GROUNDING, BONDING, SHIELDING BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1971-1975, Federal Aviation
Administration, FAA-RD-76-177, 1976.

GROUNDING, BONDING, SHIELDING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
AND FACILITIES, 3 Volumes, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA-RD-76-215-1, -2, -3.

LIGHTNING PROTECTION, The American Radio Relay League. (also available on the
www - see listing of www).

William C. Hart and Edgar W. Malone, LIGHTNING AND LIGHTNING PROTECTION, Don
White Consultants, 1979 and 1984.

Bodle, D.W., ELECTRICAL PROTECTION GUIDE FOR LAND-BASED RADIO FACILITIES,
Joslyn Publication JES-159-3M, Joslyn Electronic Systems, Goleta, CA., 1971.

R.H. Golde, LIGHTNING, Vols. 1 and 2, Academic Press, October 1977.
Uman, M.A., UNDERSTANDING LIGHTNING, Bek Technical Publications, Inc.,
Carnegie, PA, 1971.

Viemeister, P.E., THE LIGHTNING  BOOK, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, April 1972.

Byers, H.R. THUNDERSTORM ELECTRICITY, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1953.

FAA-STD-019 Rev. B, Federal Aviation Administration.

FAA-STD-020, TRANSIENT PROTECTION, GROUNDING, BONDING AND SHIELDING
REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, Federal Aviation Administration.

ORDER 6950.19, PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES FOR LIGHTNING PROTECTION,GROUNDING,
BONDING AND SHIELDING IMPLEMENTATION, Federal Aviation Administration.

ORDER 6950.20, FUNDAMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS OF LIGHTNING, PROTECTION, GROUNDING,
BONDING AND SHIELDING, Federal Aviation Administration.

NFPA 70, NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE (NEC), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).

NFPA 77,  STATIC ELECTRICITY, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).

NFPA 78, LIGHTNING PROTECTION CODE, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).

UL 96, LIGHTNING PROTECTION COMPONENTS, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.

UL 96A, INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS FOR LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEMS,
Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.

Uman, M.A., G.A. Dawson, and W.A. Hoppel, PROGRESS IN ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY,
Reviess of Geophysics and Space Physics, Vol. 13, No. 3, 760-765, July 1975.

Allison, L.J., A. Arkin, W.R. Bandeen, W.E. Shenk, and R. Wexler,
METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, Vol. 13,
No.3, 737-746, July 1975.

McCann, G.D., THE MEASUREMENT OF LIGHTNING CURRENTS IN DIRECT STROKES,
Transactions of the AIEE, Vol. 63, 1944.

Ezell, T.F., SURVEY OF LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS, Sandia Corporation,
SC-TM-67-630, August 1976.

Hays, J.B. and D.W. Bodle, Task BQ-CD, Bell Laboratories Technical Report No.
6, ELECTRICAL PROTECTION OF TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, December 1, 1963.

Gordon, W.F., LIGHTNING ENVIRONMENTS, Sandia Corporation, SCL-DR-69-40, April
1969.

Winn, W.P. and G.P. Moore, ELECTIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS IN THUNDERCLOUDS USING
INSTRUMENTED ROCKETS, J. Geophys. Res., 76, 5007-5017, 1971.

Holitza, F.J., and H.W. Kasemir, ACCELERATED DECAY OF THUNDERSTORM ELECTRIC
FIELDS BY CHAFF SEEDING, J. Geophys. Res., 79, 425-429, 1974

Kasemir, H.W., F.J. Holitza, W.F. Cobb, and W.D. Rust, LIGHTNING SUPPRESSION BY
CHAFF SEEDING AT THE BASE OF THUNDERSTORMS, J. Geophys. Res, 81, 1976.

FAA/FIT WORKSHOP ON GROUNDING AND LIGHTNING PROTECTION, Federal Aviation
Administration, Report No. FAA-RD-77-84, May 1977.

Fisher, F.A. and J.A. Plumer, LIGHTNING PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT, NASA Reference
Publication 1008, 1977.

Hill, R.D., LIGHTNING RESEARCH, Naval Research Laboratory Bulletin, July 1976.

Adams, N.A., INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTNING AND OTHER ELECTROSTATIC PHENOMENA, Air
Weather Service, USAF Technical Report #224, August 1971.

Few, A.A., THUNDER, Scientific American, July 1975.

LIGHTNING-NATURE'S HIGH-VOLTAGE SPECTACLE, National Geographic, Vol. 184, No.
1, 83-103, July 1993.

Chalmers, J.A., ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1967.

Workman,, C.J., THE PRODUCTION OF THUNDERSTORM ELECTRICITY, Journal of the
Franklin Institute, Vol. 283, No. 6, 540-557, June 1967.

Golde, R.H., LIGHTNING PROTECTION, Edward Arnold Publishers, London, 1973.

Lewis, W.W., THE PROTECTION OF TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS AGAINST LIGHTNING, Dover
Publications, NY, 1965.

Denny, H.W. et. al., ELECTRONIC FACILITY BONDING, GROUNDING, AND SHIELDING
REVIEW, Report No. FAA-RO-73-51, Contract No. DOT-FA72WA-2850, Engineering
Experiment Station, Georgia Institute of Technology, November 1972.

Taussig, H.B., DEATH FROM LIGHTNING AND THE POSSIBILITY OF LIVING AGAIN,
American Scientist, 57, No. 3, 306-316, 1969.

Ravitch, M.M., et. al., LIGHTNING STROKE, New England Journal of Medicine, 264,
36-38, 1961.

Beck, E., LIGHTNING PROTECTION FOR ELECTRIC SYSTEMS, McGraw-Hill.

Morrison, Ralph, GROUNDING AND SHIELDING TECHNIQUES IN INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS,
John Wiley & Sons, 1977.

Ott, Henry W., NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES IN ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, John Wiley & Sons.

Bell Laboratories, PHYSICAL DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, Vol. 1 & 2,
Prentice-Hall, 1970.

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