| 1 |
About NLSI |
| 1.1 |
Mission Statement |
| 1.2 |
Board of Advisors |
| 1.3 |
The Zeus Club |
| 1.4 |
Awards for Contributions to Lightning Safety
1.4.1 2000 Awards
1.4.2 2001 Awards
1.4.3 2002 Awards
1.4.4 2003 Awards
1.4.5 2004 Awards
1.4.6 2005 Awards
1.4.7 2006 Awards |
| 1.5 |
NLSI International Lightning Safety Initiative |
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1.5.1 Example
of recent lightning safety efforts in Bangladesh |
| 1.6 |
Biography of NLSI Founder |
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| 2 |
NLSI Business Services |
| 2.1 |
Auditing, Compliance, and Consulting Services |
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2.1.1 NLSI conducts a broad Range
of Consulting Services |
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2.1.2 Need a Quick Site
Evaluation? |
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2.1.3 Want to establish a Lightning
Safety Committee? |
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2.1.4 NLSI Capabilities for Comprehensive Lightning Hazard Management |
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2.1.5 A Typical Case
Study |
| 2.2 |
Classes, Seminars, and Workshops |
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2.2.1 Graduate Study Program Workshop on
Lightning
Lightning Protection for Engineers (2 days) |
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2.2.1.1 Course
Outline for GSP Workshop |
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2.2.1.2 Online
Registration for GSP Workshop |
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2.2.2 Inspection, Maintenance
& Testing of NFPA-780 Lightning Protection System (2-3 days) |
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2.2.3 Lightning Safety Tutorial
(1-3 hours) |
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2.2.4 Combination Lightning Safety Class With On-Site Assessment (3 days) |
| 2.3 |
Videos, Standards, and Books |
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2.3.1 NLSI Videos and DVDs
on Lightning Issues |
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2.3.2 International Codes and
Standards on Lightning Safety |
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2.3.3 NLSI book on Lightning
Protection for Engineers |
| 2.4 |
Research Site |
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High Altitude Lightning Observation
Site (HALOS) |
| 2.5 |
Previous Activities for Clients |
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Examples of Previous Activities for NLSI Clients |
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| 3 |
Lightning Incidents |
| 3.1 |
Lightning
Fatalities, Injuries, and Damage Reports in The United States |
| 3.2 |
Lightning Costs and Losses from Attributed Sources |
| 3.3 |
Lightning's Social and Economic Costs |
| 3.4 |
35 Years of Lightning
Deaths and Injuries |
| 3.5 |
Selected Incidents from the "It
Can't Happen to Me" Library |
| 3.6 |
Aviation Losses from Lightning
Strikes |
| 3.7 |
Daily Lightning
Incidents Around the World |
| 3.8 |
Manifestations Of Lightning Deaths And Injuries |
| 3.9 |
How Much Does Lightning Impact Business? |
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| 4 |
Personal Lightning Safety |
| 4.1 |
Decision Tree for Personal
Lightning Safety |
| 4.2 |
Multi-Agency Recommendations
for Lightning Safety |
| 4.3 |
Information for Lightning Strike
Victims |
| 4.4 |
Lightning Safety Tips |
| 4.5 |
Lightning Safety in NLSI's Home
Town (Louisville, CO) |
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4.5.1 Louisville
Ball fields |
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4.5.2 Louisville
Parks |
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4.5.3 Louisville
Pools |
| 4.6 |
Lightning Safety for Organized Outdoor
Athletic Events |
| 4.7 |
Indoor/Outdoor Swimming Pool
Safety |
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4.7.1 Lightning and Aquatics
Safety: A Cautionary Perspective for Indoor Pools |
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4.7.2 YMCA Guidelines for Indoor
Pools Closing Due to Lightning (PDF file) |
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4.7.3 More Thoughts on Lightning Safety and Pools |
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4.7.4 Lightning and Indoor Pools: A Reply to Aquatics Resources eSplash Newsletter |
| 4.8 |
Lightning Safety for Campers and
Hikers |
| 4.9 |
Boating Lightning Safety |
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4.9.1 Boating
Lightning Protection |
| 4.10 |
Lightning Safety for Outdoor Workers |
| 4.11 |
Good Lightning Shelters For Outdoor Workers |
| 4.12 |
Lightning: The Underrated Weather
Hazard |
| 4.13 |
NCAA Sports
Medicine Handbook Lightning Safety Guideline (PDF file) |
| 4.14 |
A Lightning Safety Mandate
For The Game Of Golf |
| 4.15 |
US Golf Association Lightning Warning
Information |
| 4.16 |
National
Athletic Trainers' Association Position Statement: Lightning Safety
for Athletics and Recreation (PDF file) |
| 4.17 |
Backcountry Safety
Reminders (PDF file) |
| 4.18 |
Lightning
Safety Recommendations from American Meteorological Society
(PDF file) |
| 4.19 |
¿Está preparado
para una tormenta eléctrica? |
| 4.20 |
Lightning
Protection Hazard Alert (PDF file), Protección
contra los rayos |
| 4.21 |
Developing
a Lightning Awareness Program Model for the Third World Based
on American-South Asian Experience (PDF file) |
| 4.22 |
Many medical abstracts about lightning deaths and injuries (from www.pubmed.gov) |
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Of More General Interest: |
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1. Fun With Lightning |
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2. Vehicles and Lightning |
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3. When Lightning Strikes People |
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4. Colorado Lightning Resource Center |
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5. Lightning Protection: New Myths & Old Realities |
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6. Make Very Tiny Lightning |
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7. Lightning Strike Probabilities |
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8. Cone of Protection Myth |
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| 5 |
Structural Lightning Safety |
| 5.1 |
Background Issues |
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5.1.1 The Lightning Attachment Process and Risk Management of the Hazard |
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5.1.2 Atmospheric Charge Redistribution |
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5.1.3 Determining the Probability
of Lightning Striking a Facility |
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5.1.4 Lightning Risk
and Hazard Analysis Measurement |
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5.1.5 Zone or Fortress Protection
Concept |
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5.1.6 Effects of Lightning on Assets,
Facilities and Structures |
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5.1.7 21st Century Lightning Safety For Environments Containing Sensitive Electronics, Explosives, and Volatile Substances |
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5.1.8 Overview of Global Lightning Protection Codes and Standards |
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5.1.9 The Basis of Conventional
Lightning Protection Technology (PDF file) |
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5.1.10 Lightning Safety
Decision Tree for Facilities |
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5.1.11 Going Beyond the
Codes: An Expanding List of On-the-Job Tips |
| 5.2 |
Surge Protection Issues |
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5.2.1 Ode to the Missing Surge Protector |
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5.2.2 Overvoltages: Cause, Effect
& Mitigation |
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5.2.3 Guidelines for Providing Surge
Protection at Commercial, Institutional
and Industrial Facilities |
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5.2.4 Advanced Control
of Transients |
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5.2.5 NLSI Recommendations
for Surge Protection Devices |
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5.2.6 IEEE Guide for Residential Lightning Protection |
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5.2.7 Developing a Consumer-Oriented Guide on Surge Protection |
| 5.3 |
Grounding and Bonding Issues |
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5.3.1 Recommended Grounding Guidelines |
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5.3.2 Definition of
Terms Used in Grounding |
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5.3.3 An Examination of Lightning-Strike-Grounding
Physics (PDF file) |
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5.3.4 Relative Advantages and Disadvantages of the Principal Types of Earth Electrodes |
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5.3.5 Case Study: Grounding Issues with Solutions |
| 5.4 |
Air Terminals |
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5.4.1 Fundamentals of Lightning Protection |
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5.4.2 Lightning Rods
- Recent Investigations |
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5.4.3 Scientists Oppose
Early Streamer Air Terminals |
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5.4.4 Charge Transfer System
is Wishful Thinking, Not Science |
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5.4.5 Applicability of Lightning
Elimination Devices to Substations and Power Lines (Word file) |
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5.4.6 ESE Air Terminals Ruling
by US Federal District Court (PDF file) |
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5.4.7 There Is No Magic To Lightning
Protection:
Charge Transfer Systems
Do Not Prevent Lightning Strikes (PDF file) |
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5.4.8 A Critical Review of Nonconventional Approaches to Lightning Protection (PDF file) |
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5.4.9 Conventional and Unconventional Lightning Air Terminals: An Update (PDF file) |
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5.4.10 A Review of Studies on Early Streamer Emission and Charge Transfer System Conducted in
Malaysia (PDF file) |
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5.4.11
Today's "Modern" Lightning Protection:
Mr. Hocus Pocus, Meet Mr. Smoke & Mr. Mirrors
(PDF file) |
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5.4.12 Pararrayos no Convencionales (PDF file) |
| 5.5 |
Site-Specific Issues |
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5.5.1 Lightning Hazard Reduction at
Wind Farms |
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5.5.2 GIS-Based Study of Lightning
Damages |
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5.5.3 Overview of Lightning
Detection Equipment |
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5.5.4 Should Lightning Rods
be Installed? |
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5.5.5 Small Shelters and Safety
from Lightning |
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5.5.6
Lightning Protection for Telecommunications Facilities |
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5.5.7 Lightning Protection
for High-Value Facilities: A Peruvian Mining Case Study |
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5.5.8 Nuts and Bolts of Jolts: Lightning Safety in the Mining Industry |
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5.5.9 Case Study of Lightning Damage to Wind Turbine Blade (PDF file) |
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| 6 |
Reference Information |
| 6.1 |
General Interest Reference |
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6.1.1 Information for the
Media |
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6.1.2 Little
Known Lightning Information |
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6.1.3 Weather
Factoids |
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6.1.4 Mastery, Mystery and
Myths about Lightning |
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6.1.5 Lightning
Safety Discussion Group (A Yahoo! forum) |
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6.1.6 USA
Today Thunderstorm Info |
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6.1.7 The Thunder Mechanism |
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6.1.8 The Science of Thunder |
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6.1.9 A Celebration
of Benjamin Franklin: The
Year 1706 and Other Events of that Era |
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6.1.10 Wisdom
from Benjamin Franklin |
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6.1.11 A Lightning
Safety Quiz (EXE file) |
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6.1.12 A Brief
History of Lightning Safety in the U.S. |
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6.1.13 NLSI's Short Version of Risk Assessment |
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6.1.14 Fast Facts About Lightning (PDF file) |
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6.1.15 Measured Lightning Activity Worldwide |
| 6.2 |
Lightning Maps |
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6.2.1 World
Lightning Map |
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6.2.2 United
States (thunderstorm days/year) |
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6.2.3 United
States (flash density/year) |
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6.2.4 Australia |
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6.2.5 France |
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6.2.6 Japan |
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6.2.7 United Kingdom |
| 6.3 |
Photos and Images |
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6.3.1 Weather
Satellite/Radar Images (U.S. weather images) |
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6.3.2 On-site
Photos from NLSI Consulting Projects |
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6.3.3 Lightning Damage
Photos |
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6.3.4 Lightning
Protection Photos |
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6.3.5 Factual Lightning Illustrations |
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6.3.6 Lightning Bolt Photos |
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6.3.7 Plane
Being Struck by Lightning |
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6.3.8 See
Lightning Strike Ground (WMV file) |
| 6.4 |
Technical Reference |
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6.4.1 Lightning Terms
Glossary |
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6.4.2 A Review of
Dynamic Changes in USA Lightning Codes and Standards |
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6.4.3 Matrix of
Lightning Protection Subsystems |
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6.4.4 NASA's
Lightning Primer |
| 6.5 |
NLSI Research Program on the Comparative
Behavior of Air Terminals |
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6.5.1 Experimental
Design |
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6.5.2 Installation
Details |
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6.5.3 Summary
of Results |
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6.5.4 Collaborator
Setups |
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6.5.5 2005
Details |
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6.5.6 2006
Take-Down of Six-Year Experiment |
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6.5.7 2008 Experiment at HALOS |
