2014 International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP 2014) Shanghai, China 11-18 October 2014 Pages 1-675 IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN: 1/3 CFP1409T-POD 978-1-4799-3545-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 CORONA EFFECT ON INSULATOR VOLTAGES FOR A DIRECT LIGHTNING STRIKE TO A PHASE CONDUCTOR .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Thang, Tran Huu ; Baba, Yoshihiro ; Nagaoka, Naoto ; Ametani, Akihiro ; Itamoto, Naoki ; Rakov, Vladimir A. SIMULATION OF LIGHTNING ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES WITH THE TLM METHOD IN THE 2D CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM ................................................................................................................................................... 7 Tanaka, Yohei ; Nagaoka, Naoto ; Baba, Yoshihiro ; Ametani, Akihiro EARTH POTENTIAL RISE INFLUENCE ON HIGH-VOLTAGE ROTATING MACHINES OF A POWER PLANT CAUSED DUE TO LIGHTNING ON A NEARBY TALL OBJECT.......................................................................................... 14 Nagarjun, Y EUROPEAN CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS........................................................................................... 24 Poelman, D.R. ; Schulz, W. ; Diendorfer, G. ; Bernardi, M. THE DYNAMIC ARC CHAIN MODEL AND EXPERIMENT ABOUT ARC EXTINGUISHED BY EXPLOSION AIRFLOW......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Guo, Wei ; Wang, Jufeng ; Wu, Dong ; Liang, Xue ; Li, Guodong ; He, Xiaohua ; Ding, Yi LIGHTNING CURRENT WAVEFORM OBSERVED ON TRANSMISSION LINE AND LIGHTNING TOWER IN CHINA ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Yang, Shuai ; Li, Han ; Zhou, Wenjun ; Yu, Jianhui LIGHTNING FATALITIES IN COLOMBIA FROM 2000 TO 2009 ....................................................................................................... 40 Navarrete-Aldana, Norberto ; Cooper, Mary Ann ; Holle, Ronald L. TRANSFERRED TRANSIENT VOLTAGES ON THE NEARBY FACILITIES WHEN A LIGHTNING STROKE HIT BRIDGE .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Li, Yexu ; Dawalibi, Farid ; Fortin, Simon ; Wang, Zhigang ; Wu, Lan ; Liu, Yuyue A REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RETURN-STROKE MODELS BASED ON TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 53 Conti, Alberto De ; Silveira, Fernando H. ; Visacro, S. THE VISUAL IDENTIFICATION OF LIGHTNING-PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM CLOUDS ................................................ 58 Holle, Ronald L. RESEARCH ON THE EFFECT OF THE ARC EXTINGUISHING TIME OF LIGHTNING PROTECTION PARALLEL GAP ON LIGHTNING TRIP-OUT RATE ............................................................................................................................ 65 Wang, Jufeng ; Guo, Wei ; Wu, Dong ; Li, Guodong ; Liang, Xue LLS DETECTION EFFICIENCY OF GROUND STRIKE POINTS ....................................................................................................... 70 Schulz, W. ; Pedeboy, S. ; Saba, M.M.F. PERFORMANCE OF REINFORCING-STEEL WITH JOINTS FOR DOWN-CONDUCTORS AND RESISTANCE OF A BUILDING WHERE REBAR AND JOINTS WERE CONNECTED BY CONNECTORS ............................. 74 Hiruma, Kazuo ; Nihei, Takayuki ; Sonehara, Takeo ; Yokoyama, Shigeru ; Shimokawa, Hideo LF LIGHTNING LOCATION SYSTEM (BOLT) IN OSAKA AREA AND ITS APPLICATIONS..................................................... 82 Wu, Ting ; Ushio, Tomoo ; Yoshida, Satoru NUMERICAL MODELISATION OF A LIGHTNING TEST DEVICE: APPLICATION TO DIRECT EFFECTS ON AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 85 Lopez, Remy ; Laisne, Alexandre ; Lago, Frederic LIGHTNING RISK ASSESSMENT EVALUATION ON FRENCH NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS .................................................. 91 Duqueroy, P. ; Miry, C. ; Seltner, P. POSSIBLE LEVELS ON THE HARM AT TOPS OF BRAINS OWING TO THE MAXIMUM PULSE ENERGY DENSITY WITHIN BRAINS INDUCED BY EXPOSURE OF STANDING UPRIGHT PERSONS ON THE FLAT GROUND TO THE LARGEST VERTICAL EXTREMELY NEIGHBOURING ELECTRIC FIELDS AROUND LARGE VERTICAL LIGHTNING RETURN STROKES TO THE FLAT GROUND 10/350 µS AND 1/200 µS .............................. 97 Kurita, Hiroshi ARC CHARACTERISTICS OF PARALLEL GAP FOR COMPOSITE INSULATOR...................................................................... 107 Yu, ZhanQing ; Yu, Junjie ; Rong, Zeng ; Wang, Xi ; Sun, Weimin HEIGHT-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS OF LIGHTNING RETURN STROKES................................... 112 Wang, D. ; Takagi, N. ; Gamerota, W.R. ; Uman, M.A. ; Jordan, D.M. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WINTER LIGHTNING IN HOKKAIDO AS OBSERVED BY THE JLDN.................................. 116 Matsui, Michihiro ; Hara, Yuji PROTECTION OF 1000KV FIXED SERIES COMPENSATION AGAINST LIGHTNING.............................................................. 122 Chao, Hui ; Xia, Chao ; Chen, Xiu-juan ; Shen, Hai-bin STUDY ON LIGHTNING EARLY WARNING INFORMATION IN THE APPLICATION OF LIGHTNING RISK ASSESSMENT..................................................................................................................................................................................... 127 Tang, Hongke ; Huang, Xiaohong ; Zhou, Junchi ; Zhang, Xiaojie LIGHTNING CURRENTS IN DBS SYSTEM FROM TRIGGERED-LIGHTNING EXPERIMENTS AT GUANGDONG, CHINA................................................................................................................................................................................ 131 Dai, Chuanyou ; Wang, Qiwei ; Zhang, Xinghai ; Chen, Shaodong ; Huang, Zhihui ENERGY COORDINATION OF ZNO VARISTOR BASED SPDS IN SURGE CURRENT DUE TO DIRECT LIGHTNING FLASHES ............................................................................................................................................................................... 136 Shin, Hee-Kyung ; Kim, Dong-Seong ; Chung, Young-ki ; Lee, Bok-hee DIMENSIONING OF SPD FOR THE PROTECTION AGAINST SURGES DUE TO LIGHTNING TO LV OVERHEAD LINES ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 141 Kisielewicz, T. ; Piparo, G.B.Lo ; Mazzetti, C. ; Rousseau, A. ASSESSING THE DANGERS OF LIGHTNING TO LIVESTOCK, A CASE STUDY OF A LIGHTNING EVENT RESULTING IN THE DEATHS OF 22 CATTLE..................................................................................................................................... 146 Dickson, Andrew S. LIGHTNING CAUSED OUTAGES IN THE AUSTRIAN POWER GRID TRANSMISSION LINE NETWORK.......................... 152 Diendorfer, Gerhard ; Pichler, Hannes ; Achleitner, Georg ; Broneder, Matthias SELF-INITIATED AND OTHER-TRIGGERED POSITIVE UPWARD LIGHTNING MEASURED AT THE PEISSENBERG TOWER, GERMANY ...................................................................................................................................................... 157 Heidler, F. ; Manhardt, M. ; Stimper, K. CORRELATION BETWEEN RECORDED CG LIGHTNING DISCHARGES AND SHUT-DOWNS OF SELECTED HV OVERHEAD POWER TRANSMISSION LINES IN POLAND ................................................................................ 167 Loboda, Marek ; Lenarczyk, Krzysztof A COMBINED SUPPRESSOR FOR TRANSMISSION CHANNEL OF RAILWAY AXLE COUNTING SYSTEM ..................... 172 He, Hengwen ; Yang, Zhenheng THE EFFECTS OF AEROSOL ON DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORM ELECTRIFICATION: A SIMULATION STUDY IN WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF) MODEL ........................................................ 177 Zhao, Pengguo ; Yin, Yan ; Xiao, Hui NUMBER OF LIGHTNING STRIKES TO TALL STRUCTURES - COMPARISON OF CALCULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS USING A MODERN LIGHTING MONITORING SYSTEM .............................................................................. 181 Wetter, Martin ; Kern, Alexander IMPACT OF SECONDARY EFFECT OF EARTH POTENTIAL RISE CAUSED BY LIGHTNING STRIKE ON LIGHTNING INTRODUCTION PORT IN BASE STATION................................................................................................................. 188 Liu, Jike ; Cheng, Lin ; Qi, Zheng OPTIMIZED DESIGN OF EARTHING NETWORK WITH POWER FREQUENCY EARTHING RESISTANCE SUBSTITUTED BY EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION RATIO OF EARTHING NETWORK AREA IN THE EVENT OF LIGHTNING STRIKE............................................................................................................................................................................ 192 Liu, Jike ; Chen, Qiang INFLUENCE OF CHANNEL LENGTH, RETURN-STROKE SPEED AND GROUND CONDUCTIVITY ON HORIZONTAL ELECTRIC FIELD ASSOCIATED WITH NEARBY LIGHTNING RETURN STROKES .................................. 197 Yu, J.L. ; Fan, Y.D. ; Wang, J.G. ; Zhou, M. ; Cai, L. ; Huang, S.B. ; Hu, C. A HYBRID FREQUENCY-TIME DOMAIN METHODOLOGY FOR THE MODELING OF GROUNDING SYSTEMS........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 202 Li, Jingli ; Qi, Ge ; Qiao, Zhiyuan ; Zhang, Lingjuan LIGHTNING STROKE OPTICAL TRIGGERING CIRCUIT DESIGN FOR OVERHEAD LINE.................................................. 205 Yan, Nan-nan ; Shi, Zhenyu ; Xu, Nan ; Wang, Bing ; Fu, Zheng-cai A NUMERICAL STUDY OF AEROSOL EFFECTS ON ELECTRIFICATION OF THUNDERSTORMS .................................... 210 Shi, Zheng ; Tan, Yong Bo A PHYSICAL MODEL FOR INCEPTION AND PROPAGATION OF UPWARD LIGHTNING LEADER FROM A 1200 KV AC POWER TRANSMISSION LINE ..................................................................................................................................... 215 Devadiga, Anurag A. ; Thomas, M.Joy EFFECT OF CORONA AND NON-LINEAR TOWER GROUNDING SYSTEM MODELLING ON BACKFLASHOVER SIMULATION .......................................................................................................................................................... 220 Gatta, F.M. ; Geri, A. ; Lauria, S. ; Maccioni, M. MAPPING LIGHTNING FATALITY RISK.............................................................................................................................................. 226 Roeder, William P. ; Cummins, Benjamin H. ; Ashley, Walker S. ; Holle, Ronald L. ; Cummins, Kenneth L. SURGE CURRENT DISTRIBUTION IN THE LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM OF A TEST HOUSE EQUPPIED IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES.................................................................................................... 238 Maslowski, G. ; Wyderka, S. ; Ziemba, R. ; Karnas, G. ; Filik, K. ; Karpinski, L. THE LIGHTNING PROTECTION PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPOSITE MATERIAL CROSS-ARM IN 10 KV DISTRIBUTION LINES ........................................................................................................................................................................ 242 Cai, Wei ; Deng, Heming ; Zhang, Rui ; Zhang, Zichao ; Zeng, Qiang INSTALLATION OF BULKHEAD PLATES FOR LIGHTNING ENERGY DIVERSION AT FAA COMMUNICATION TOWERS SITES ...................................................................................................................................................... 246 Graves, C.M.Chuck ; Wibisono, Ben ; Tenicela, Enrique JUDGMENT ABOUT THUNDERSTORMS POSITION, MOVING DIRECTION AND THE PATH BASED ON NETWORKING ATMOSPHERE ELECTRIC-FIELD MONITORS DATA........................................................................................ 251 Zhang, Yu ; Chen, Jia-qing ; Liu, Jun ; Wang, Yang-jun ; Wang, Zaihui ; Zhu, Fumeng EVALUATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS DUO TO INCLINED LIGHTNING CHANNEL ON FINITELY CONDUCTIVE GROUND ....................................................................................................................................................... 255 Jiang, ZhiDong ; Zhou, Bihua ; Qiu, Shi A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON CHARACTERISTICS OF THUNDER PULSES OF LIGHTNING ............................................... 260 Bodhika, J.A.P. ; Dharmarathna, W.G.D. ; Fernando, Mahendra ; Cooray, Vernon FEASIBILITY STUDY ON USING JACKET STRUCTURE AS NATURAL GROUNDING ELECTRODE OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES .................................................................................................................................................................. 265 Fang, Chaoying ; Lan, Lei ; Wang, Yu ; Wen, Xishan ; Siew, WH. ; Hanaffi, F. ; Timoshkin, I. ; Li, Jutian ; Zhang, Zeng RESEARCH ON CIRCUIT BREAKER LIGHTNING FAILURE OF OPEN-RING POINT IN 220KV ELECTROMAGNETIC LOOP NETWORK ............................................................................................................................................. 269 Dong, Manling ; Ren, Huan ; Yao, Shuai A REVIEW ON THE TESTING METHOD FOR LOW RESIDUAL VOLTAGES IN SPD............................................................... 273 Lee, Young-Jun ; Lee, Kihong DESIGN OF MULTI-COMPONENT IMPULSE CURRENT GENERATOR FOR PRACTICAL LIGHTNING CURRENT SIMULATION ........................................................................................................................................................................... 278 Wang, Bing ; Fu, Zheng-cai ; Yan, Nan-nan SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING ACTIVITY OVER YANGZTE RIVER DELTA, CHINA, 2009–2013........................................................................................................................................................... 283 Wang, Qiang RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSITIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND FLASH AND TILTED CHARGE STRUCTURE OF THUNDERSTORM ....................................................................................................................................................... 288 Wang, Haoliang ; Guo, Fengxia ; Qin, Meiou MULTIPLE BASELINE LIGHTNING INTERFEROMETRY - IMPROVING THE DETECTION OF LOW AMPLITUDE VHF SOURCES .................................................................................................................................................................... 293 Stock, Michael ; Krehbiel, Paul RESEARCH OF DIFFERENTIATE TECHNOLOGY AND STRATEGY OF LIGHTNING PROTECTION FOR 500KV TRANSMISSION LINE JG-TYPE TOWER ................................................................................................................................ 301 Yuan, Haiyan ; Yao, Jinxia ; Zhuang, Yanfei ; Yong, Jun ULTIMATE VHF BROADBAND INTERFEROMETER AND LIGHTNING OBSERVATIONS .................................................... 307 Kawasaki, Zen ; Akita, Manabu ESTIMATION OF CHARGE DISTRIBUTION OF INDIVIDUAL LIGHTNING DISCHARGES BY VHF BROADBAND INTERFEROMETER......................................................................................................................................................... 311 Kawasaki, Zen ; Akita, Manabu LIGHTNING WARNINGS WITH NLDN CLOUD AND CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING DATA ......................................... 315 Holle, Ronald L. ; Demetriades, Nicholas W.S. ; Nag, Amitabh APPLICATIONS OF THE FDTD METHOD TO LIGHTNING ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE AND SURGE SIMULATIONS.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 325 Baba, Yoshihiro ; Rakov, Vladmir A. LABORATORY FOR THE QUALIFICATION-TESTING OF SPDS COMBINING HIGHEST POWER PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS WITH UNIQUE FINE ADJUSTMENT POSSIBILITIES.......................................................... 340 Finis, G. ; Wetter, M. ; Durth, R. ; Depping, C. DESIGN OF LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON ARM ................................................................................................ 346 Yang, Zhongjiang ; Jiang, Su INFLUENCE OF HUMIDITY AND POLLUTION ON THE DIELECTRIC STRENGTH OF COMPONENTS USED IN ISOLATED LPS............................................................................................................................................................................ 351 Brocke, Ralph ; Beierl, Ottmar TRANSIENT IMPEDANCE OF GROUNDING RODS ENCASED IN GROUND ENHANCING COMPOUNDS ......................... 359 Androvitsaneas, Vasilios P. ; Gonos, Ioannis F. ; Stathopulos, Ioannis A. LIGHTNING CORONA SHEATH DYNAMICS BASED ON A GENERALIZED SPACE CHARGE DISTRIBUTION............................................................................................................................................................................................. 364 Cvetic, J. ; Ignjatovic, M. ; Pavlovic, D. ; Djuric, R. ; Ponjavic, M. ; Sumarac, D. ; Trifkovic, Z. ; Mijajlovic, N. ; Heidler, F. GENERALIZED TRAVELING CURRENT SOURCE RETURN STROKE MODEL WITH CURRENT REFLECTIONS AND ATTENUATION ALONG THE CHANNEL ...................................................................................................... 367 Ignjatovic, M. ; Cvetic, J. ; Pavlovic, D. ; Djuric, R. ; Ponjavic, M. ; Sumarac, D. ; Trifkovic, Z. ; Mijajlovic, N. ; Heidler, F. A FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF A LARGE GROUP OF CHILDREN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING....................................................... 372 Cooper, Mary Ann ; Silva, Lynette M. ; Blumenthal, Ryan ; Pliskin, Neil RESEARCH ON NATURAL CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING FLASHES OVER A CHINESE INLAND PLATEAU ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 376 Kong, Xiangzhen ; Zhao, Yang ; Wang, Huaibin ; Zhang, Tong RESEARCH ON LIGHTNING TRIPS AND PROTECTION MEASURES OF OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINES .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 381 Yong-ling, Lu ; Yang, Liu ; Zhi-cheng, Zhou ; Feng-bo, Tao EXTERNAL LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR WIND TURBINE BLADES — PRELIMINARY AERODYNAMIC RESULTS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 386 Ayub, A.S. ; Siew, W.H. ; MacGregor, S.J. 3-D FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF LIGHTNING BY THE FLASHES COAXIAL UNIFICATION FRACTAL MODEL (CUFM) ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 392 Wang, Nan SURGE PROPAGATION AND CHARACTERISTICS IN BUILDING WIRING SYSTEMS ........................................................... 397 Luo, Xiang ; Du, Y. ; Chen, Hongcai EVALUATION OF GROUNDING GRID'S EFFECTIVE AREA .......................................................................................................... 402 Hanaffi, F. ; Siew, W H ; Timoshkin, I. ; Lu, Hailiang ; Wang, Yu ; Lan, Lei ; Wen, Xishan LIGHTNING TRANSIENT RESPONSE OF OIL DERRICK AND ASSOCIATED GROUNDING SYSTEM ............................... 407 Bi, Xiaolei ; Liu, Quanzhen ; Zhao, Honglei ; Wang, Xiao ; Zhang, Xing LIGHTNING CURRENT AMONG CLOSELY-SPACED CABLES...................................................................................................... 412 Chen, Hongcai ; Du, Y. ; Chen, Mingli REQUIREMENTS FOR AND DEVELOPMENT OF FUSE-TYPE SPD DISCONNECTOR............................................................. 418 Sato, Atsushi ; Morii, Nobuyuki ; Sato, Hidetaka A METHOD OF CALCULATING THE FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT GROUND IMPEDANCE OF HORIZONTAL ELECTRODES .................................................................................................................................................................. 422 Cho, Sung-Chul ; Kim, Ki-Bok ; Li, Feng ; Lee, Bok-hee FROM LIGHTNING TO ARC MODELS STUDYING ARCS IN ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS ................................................ 427 Kavi, Moses. ; Pirapaharan, Kandasamy. ; Hoole, Paul.R.P. ; Hoole, Samuel.R.H. THREE DIMENSIONAL ELECTRIC DIPOLE MODEL FOR LIGHTNING-AIRCRAFT ELECTRODYNAMICS AND ITS APPLICATION TO LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT ......................................................................... 435 Fisher, J. ; Hoole, P.R.P ; Pirapaharan, K. ; Thirukumaran, S ; Hoole, S.R.H. CLOUD TO GROUND AND GROUND TO CLOUD FLASHES IN LIGHTNING PROTECTION: AND FUTURE SEVERE LIGHTNING AND CLIMATE CHANGE ............................................................................................................... 440 Fisher, J. ; Hoole, P.R.P ; Pirapaharan, K. ; Thirukumaran, S ; Hoole, S.R.H. MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT REPRESENTATIONS FOR HIGH VOLTAGE TOWER STRUCTURES ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 446 Plesch, J. ; Hoehn, T. ; Pack, S. EFFECT OF SOIL RESISTIVITY ON THE LIGHTNING CURRENT ALONG TALL TOWERS ................................................. 451 Rameli, N. ; Ab Kadir, M.Z.A ; Izadi, M. ; Gomes, Chandima ; Azis, N. EFFECT OF THE GROUNDING SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT ON THE LIGHTNING CURRENT ALONG TALL STRUCTURES ................................................................................................................................................................................... 456 Rameli, N. ; AbKadir, M.Z.A ; Izadi, M. ; Gomes, Chandima ; Azis, N. INDUCED VOLTAGE ON A ABOVE-GROUND NATURAL GAS/OIL PIPELINE DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKE ON A TRANSMISSION LINE ..................................................................................................................................................... 461 Peppas, Georgios D. ; Papagiannis, Marios-Panagiotis ; Koulouridis, Stavros ; Pyrgioti, Eleftheria C. LIGHTNING PROTECTION OF AIRPORT TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWERS (ATCT) .................................................................. 468 Peppas, Georgios D. ; Zacharakis, Dimosthenis A. ; Pyrgioti, Eleftheria C. ; Charalampakos, Vasilios P. INTELLIGENT LOCALISATION OF SIGNALS USING THE SIGNAL WAVEFRONTS: A REVIEW ....................................... 474 Hoole, Paul R ; Pirapaharan, K. ; Kavi, M. ; Fisher, J. ; Aziz, Nur Farah ; Hoole, Samuel R H STREAMER TO LEADER TRANSITION CRITERIA FOR PROPAGATION OF LONG SPARKS AND LIGHTNING LEADERS............................................................................................................................................................................... 480 Arevalo, Liliana ; Cooray, Vernon UPWARD LEADER INCEPTION CAUSED BY A SUDDEN CHANGE OF CLOUD ELECTRIC FIELD .................................... 484 Arevalo, Liliana ; Cooray, Vernon FLAWS OF THE STANDARDS-MAKING PROCESS OF THE IEEE AND RELATED IMPACT ON LIGHTNING PROTECTION STANDARDS............................................................................................................................................. 488 Mousa, Abdul M. FACTORS EFFECT ON DISCHARGE PATH TO SCALED UHV TRANSMISSION LINES.......................................................... 493 Wang, Yu ; An, Yunzhu ; E, Shenglong ; Wen, Xishan ; Lan, Lei ; Wen, Bao ; Dai, Min ; Li, Zhijun EFFECT OF SOIL RESISTIVITY ON THE VALUE OF LIGHTNING INDUCED VOLTAGE...................................................... 498 Izadi, Mahdi ; Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF LIGHTNING CURRENT FOR THE CASE OF STRIKING TO TALL STRATURE ........................ 503 Izadi, Mahdi ; Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin EFFECT OF LIGHTNING INDUCED VOLTAGE ON THE LINE POLYMER INSULATOR IN A DISTRIBUTION LINE.................................................................................................................................................................................. 507 Izadi, Mahdi ; Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin ; Hajikhani, Maryam THE EVALUATION OF LIGHTNING RETURN STROKE CURRENT USING MEASURED FIELDS........................................ 512 Izadi, Mahdi ; Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin ; Hajikhani, Maryam EXPERIENCE AND LONG TERM PERFORMANCE OF 132KV OVERHEAD LINES GAPLESS-TYPE SURGE ARRESTER ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 517 Rawi, Iryani Mohamed ; Yahaya, Mohd Pauzi ; Kadir, M.Z.A.Ab. ; Azis, Norhafiz HOW TO DEAL WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RISK IN IEC 62305-2.................................................................................................... 521 Rousseau, Alain ; Kern, Alexander ANALYSIS OF LIGHTNING CURRENT CHARACTERISTICS TO INVESTIGATE LIGHTNING STRIKE DAMAGES TO ENERGY PIPELINE......................................................................................................................................................... 528 Rabbani, Mahbub ; Oo, Amanullah MT ; Stojcevski, Alex NUMERICAL STUDY ON EOS OF LIGHTNING RETURN STROKE CHANNELS AND ITS APPLICATION IN LIGHTNING DISCHARGE SIMULATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 533 Chen, Qiang ; Chen, Bin ; Shi, Lihua FURTHER COORDINATION TESTS BETWEEN SPDS AND BETWEEN SPD AND EQUIPMENT ........................................... 540 Rousseau, Alain ; Zhou, Qibin ; Zhao, Yang A DEEP INSIGHT INTO ZNO NONLINEAR RESISTOR ..................................................................................................................... 546 Zhang, Nanfa ; Sun, Zhen ; Xiao, Jianhu ; Ding, Liuhua ; Yue, Tao RESPONSE OF LIGHTNING, NO AND O3 TO CLIMATE ANOMALY IN CHINA ........................................................................ 551 Guo, Fengxia ; Chen, Cong ; Ju, Xiaoyu A MOVEMENT PREDICTION METHOD OF CG FLASHES BASED ON LIGHTNING AND CONVECTIVE CLOUDS CLUSTERING AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGY .............................................................................................................. 555 Guo, Juntian ; Gu, Shanqiang ; Feng, Wanxing ; Zhang, Han ; Chen, Yue REGULAR PULSES BURSTS OBSERVATION USING A TIME OF ARRIVAL LIGHTNING MAPPING SYSTEM WITH DUAL CHANNELS ......................................................................................................................................................... 560 Wang, Yanhui ; Zhang, Guangshu ; Li, Yajun ; Zhang, Tong ; Wu, Bin ; Liu, Yanxiu ; Zhao, Yuxiang ; Zhang, Rong SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF LEADER CHANNEL MODELS USED IN LONG AIR GAP POSITIVE DISCHARGE MODELLING ....................................................................................................................................................................... 564 Diaz, Oscar ; Cooray, Vernon ; Arevalo, Liliana FINE SPATIAL STRUCTURES AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRIC FIELD CHANGES FOR AN MCOMPONENT OBSERVED WITH A VHF BROADBAND INTERFEROMETER SYSTEM .......................................................... 568 Chen, Mingli ; Shen, Yanchi ; Dong, Wansheng STEADY STATE PERFORMANCE OF IMPROVISED UFER GROUNDING PRACTICE ............................................................ 572 Lim, Siow Chun ; Abd Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin ; Gomes, Chandima ; Azis, Norhafiz LIGHTNING INDUCED CURRENTS ON RIVER-CROSSING BURIED CABLES .......................................................................... 581 Paknahad, Javad ; Sheshyekani, Keyhan ; Hamzeh, Mohsen ; Rachidi, Farhad HOW TO CALCULATE THE COLLECTION AREA OF NON-ISOLATED STRUCTURE A NEW METHOD: VOLUME-PROPORTION METHOD (VPM) ........................................................................................................................................... 585 Gao, Lei ; Ye, Yisong LIGHTNING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND THEIR INDUCED VOLTAGES ON OVERHEAD LINES: THE EFFECT OF A NON-FLAT LOSSY GROUND ............................................................................................................................... 591 Paknahad, Javad ; Sheshyekani, Keyhan ; Hamzeh, Mohsen ; Rachidi, Farhad EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF LIGHTNING STROKE ON BRIDGE CABLE............................................................................ 595 Mi, Xiang ; Qin, Bin-quan ; Yang, Lei ; Liu, Qing-song ; Li, Liang-fu LIGHTNING WARNING METHOD OF TRANSMISSION LINES BASED ON MULTI-INFORMATION FUSION: ANALYSIS OF SUMMER THUNDERSTORMS IN JIANGSU ............................................................................................ 600 Guo, Juntian ; Gu, Shanqiang ; Feng, Wanxing ; Chen, Yue ; Zhang, Han INTELLEGENT LIGHTNING MONITORING SYSTEM FOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR ................................................. 606 Gong, Ling ; Yang, Jun ; Li, Jie ; Yang, Guohua ; Xie, Mingxin THREE DIRECTION FINDING METHODS OF THUNDER SOURCE USING MICROPHONE ARRAY ................................... 614 Zhang, Han ; Gu, Shanqiang ; Feng, Wanxing ; Fang, Yuhe ; Yan, Biwu ; Guo, Juntian ; Zhou, Ziqiang STUDY OF DEGRADATION BY IMPULSE HAVING 4/10µS AND 8/20µS WAVEFORM FOR MOVS (METAL OXIDE VARISTORS) ................................................................................................................................................................................... 620 Tsukamoto, Naoyuki ELECTRIC FIELD SIGNATURES OF NARROW NEGATIVE BIPOLAR PULSE ACTIVITIES FROM LIGHTNING OBSERVED IN SRI LANKA............................................................................................................................................... 624 Gunasekara, T.A.L.N. ; Mendis, U. ; Fernando, M. ; Sonnadara, U. ; Cooray, V. MEASUREMENT OF V-T CHARACTERISTICS OF SUSPENTION INSULATORS TO EVALUATE FOR LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS OF TRACTION POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM .......................................................................... 629 Suzuki, Hiroaki ; Hayashiya, Hitoshi ; Takino, Toshiaki ; Yokoyama, Shigeru ; Kumada, Akiko ; Hidaka, Kunihiko K - CHANGE: IS IT A STATIC FIELD OF A CHAOTIC PULSE BURST? ........................................................................................ 634 Nanayakkara, Sankha ; Vayanganie, S.P.A. ; Gunasekera, T.A.L.N. ; Fernando, M. ; Cooray, V. BEIJING LIGHTNING NETWORK (BLNET) AND PRELIMINARY LOCATION RESULTS OF LIGHTNING ....................... 643 Wang, Yu ; Qie, Xiushu ; Wang, Dongfang ; Liu, Mingyuan LIGHTNING IMPULSE CHARACTERISTIC OF WEAK CURRENT GROUNDING SYSTEM OF THE HIGHSPEED RAILWAY ROADBED SECTION ................................................................................................................................................ 647 Luo, Xun ; Wu, Guangning ; Zhang, Xianyi ; Cao, Xiaobin ; He, Fangfang ANALYSIS OF THE SHEATH VOLTAGE IN HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY FEEDER CABLE GROUNDING IN SINGLE-ENDED MODE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 651 Yi, Zhixing ; Cao, Xiaobin ; Wu, Guangning ; He, Fangfang ; Zhang, Xianyi RESEARCH ON THE SHEATH GROUNDING CURRENT IN HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY FEEDER CABLE............................. 655 Yang, Jia ; Yi, Zhixing ; Pan, Ying ; Li, Zhaoyang ; Mou, Xiaoyu ; Wang, Yinan ELECTROSTATIC FIELD AND LIGHTNING ZONING ANALYSIS OF A WINDMILL: STUDY OF CURRENT AND INNOVATIVE PROTECTION STRATEGIES .......................................................................................................... 659 Pironnec, Francois Le ; Aspas-Puertolas, Jesus CALCULATION OF LIGHTNING TRIP-OUT RATES FOR 10 KV OVERHEAD DISTRIBUTION LINE.................................. 667 Zejun, Lu ; Shanqiang, Gu ; Chun, Zhao POSSIBILITY OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION OF COPPER GROUNDING MATERIALS BY SOIL CORROSION AND INFLUX OF VARIOUS AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS IN JEJU ISLAND ............................................................... 671 Kam, Sang-Kyu ; Oh, Seong-Bo ; Lee, Gae-Myoung ; Kim, Ho-Chan ; Boo, Chang-Jin ; Jeong, Young-Ki VOLUME 2 FITTING ALGORITHM FOR POWER TOWER GROUNDING RESISTANCE WITH VERTICAL LAYERED SOIL MODEL ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 676 Huang, Ying ; Tang, Bo ; Qu, Zihang ; Chen, Bin EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDIES OF THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE LIGHTNING IMPULSE CURRENTS ON METAL-OXIDE ARRESTER BLOCKS .................................................................................................. 681 Jiang, Anfeng ; Fu, Zhengcai ; Sun, Wei ; Chen, Jian ; Wang, Guoli ; Li, Ruihai MULTIPHASE FLASHOVER ANALYSIS IN JAPANESE 6.6KV MEDIUM VOLTAGE LINE ..................................................... 688 Sekioka, Shozo THE EFFECT OF ICE NUCLEATION ON THUNDERSTORM CHARGE STRUCTURE .............................................................. 694 Yang, Yi ; Tan, Yongbo THE RESEARCH AND APPLICATION ON NEW METHOD OF “ISOLATION & FLOATING GROUND” FOR LIGHTENING PROTECTION OF BROADBAND ACCESS UNIT IN CUSTOMER PREMISES ......................................... 698 Chen, Qiang ; Niu, Nianzeng AN APPROACH TO ASSESS THE PROBABILITY OF DAMAGE WHEN A COORDINATED SPD SYSTEM IS INSTALLED ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 702 Lo Piparo, G.B. ; Kisielewicz, T. ; Mazzetti, C. ; Rousseau, A. THE ACTIVITY OF CLOUD-TO-GROUND FLASHES IN A LOCAL THUNDERSTORM............................................................ 707 Zhang, Tinglong ; Wei, Changxiong ; Zhang, Maohua ; Gao, Yi ; Lao, Xiaoqing ; Yu, Hai ; Zhou, Fangcong A STUDY ON CHARACTERISTICS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF CLOUD-TOGROUND FLASHES IN HAINAN ISLAND .............................................................................................................................................. 714 Yu, Hai ; Zhang, Tinglong ; Gao, Yi ; Lao, Xiaoqing ; Wei, Changxiong ; Zhou, Fangcong ; Wu, Hai PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLOUD-TO-GROUND FLASH ACTIVITY AND RADAR PARAMETERS OF A THUNDERSTORM IN HAINAN ISLAND ............................................................................... 721 Zhou, Fangcong ; Gao, Yi ; Zhang, Tinglong ; Lao, Xiaoqing ; Wei, Changxiong ; Yu, Hai ; Wang, Mingliang VARIATION OF FAIR WEATHER ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY IN JINGHONG OBSERVATORY, CHINA ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 727 Xie, Yiran ; Wu, Jian ; Xu, Yingjie ; Zhang, Tengfei ; Liu, Xuetao CHARACTERISTICS AND CORRELATION OF RETURN STROKE, M COMPONENT AND CONTINUING CURRENT FOR TRIGGERED LIGHTNING .......................................................................................................................................... 730 Zhang, Yijun ; Zhang, Yang ; Xie, Meng ; Zheng, Dong ; Lu, Weitao PROTECTION AGAINST LIGHTNING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS................................................................. 735 Bachelier, E. ; Issac, F. ; Prost, D. ; Miry, C. ; Amador, E. ; Duquerroy, P. LIGHTNING PROTECTION IN NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS ACCORDING TO IEC/EN 62305-2:2012..................................................................................................................................................................................... 741 Tofani, Alessandro ; Carli, Davide De ; Montarese, Valentina ; Mosti, Giorgio ; Mazzetti, Carlo COMPARISON BETWEEN NUMERICAL AND PASSIVE INTEGRATION OF FLAT PLATE ELECTRIC FIELD SENSOR OUTPUT ........................................................................................................................................................................... 746 Lange, J.H. ; Hunt, H.G.P. ; Nixon, K.J. HIGH SPEED OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF CLOUD FLASHES ................................................................................................... 752 Vayanganie, S.P.A. ; Fernando, M. ; Sonnadara, Upul ; Perera, D.C. ; Cooray, Vernon CHOPPED IMPULSES FOR DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR DIMENSIONING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION .................................................................................................................... 756 Neto, Estacio Tavares Wanderley ; Lopes, Gustavo Paiva ; Martinez, Manuel Luis Barreira ; Salles, Credson de IMPACT OF SPLIT FACTOR VALUE ON THE SAFE DESIGN OF DISTRIBUTION SUBSTATION EARTH GRID................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 762 Buba, S.D. ; Ahmad, W.F.Wan ; Kadir, M.Z.A.Ab. ; Gomes, Chandima ; Jasni, J. ; Osman, M. RESEARCH ON LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE OF INSULATED GROUND WIRE IN 500KV EXTRA HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE ........................................................................................................................................................... 768 Ma, Yutang ; Chen, Kui ; Ma, Yi ; Wang, Lei ; Cao, Xiaobin WAVESHAPES OF LIGHTNING INDUCED VOLTAGES ON AN OVERHEAD LINE ABOVE LOSSY GROUND ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 772 Paulino, Jose Osvaldo S. ; Lopes, Ivan Jose S. ; Boaventura, Wallace C. ; Miranda, Glassio C. ; Barbosa, Celio F. AN UPDATE ON THE CHARATERICTICS OF POSITIVE FLASHES RECORDED ON THE SÄNTIS TOWER ..................... 777 Azadifar, M. ; Paolone, M. ; Pavanello, D. ; Rachidi, F. ; Rakov, V.A. ; Romero, C. ; Rubinstein, M. STUDY ON SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING, PRECIPITATION AND NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORM DAY IN CHONGQING.......................................................................................................... 782 Luo, Fang ; Qin, Bin-quan PRACTICAL LIGHTNING PROTECTION DESIGN FOR OVERHEAD POWER DISTRIBUTION LINES............................... 789 Yokoyama, Shigeru ; Sato, Tomoyuki ; Takahashi, Akihisa THE EFFECT OF OVERHEAD GROUND WIRES OF A LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR A WIND TURBINE GENERATOR ............................................................................................................................................................................. 796 Onuma, Mitsuru LIGHTNING RISK ASSESSMENT METHOD OF TRANSMISSION LINE USING DISTRIBUTED TRAVELING WAVE MONITORING........................................................................................................................................................ 801 Lu, Yong-ling ; Liu, Yang ; Zhou, Zhi-cheng ; Lei, Meng-fei ; Zhao, Chun ; Lu, En-ze ; Su, Jie THE RESEARCH ON CHARACTERISTIC OF SHORT TIME DURATION INTRACLOUD DISCHARGE OF QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU ...................................................................................................................................................................... 805 Li, Yajun ; Zhang, Guangshu ; Wang, Yanhui ; Zhang, Tong ; Liu, Yanxiu CHAOTIC PULSE TRAIN IN CLOUD-TO-GROUND AND CLOUD FLASHES OF TROPICAL THUNDERSTORMS ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 808 Ahmad, M.R. ; Esa, M.R.M. ; Johari, D. ; Ismail, M.M. ; Cooray, V. ; Ahmad, M.R. ; Ismail, M.M. SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE INITIAL BREAKDOWN PULSES OF NEGATIVE GROUND FLASH AND NARROW BIPOLAR PULSES .................................................................................................................................................................... 810 Ahmad, M.R. ; Esa, M.R.M. ; Cooray, V. ; Ahmad, M.R. OVERVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE REGARDING THE INVALIDITY OF ERIKSSON'S MODEL/COLLECTION VOLUME METHOD ........................................................................................................................................ 814 Mousa, Abdul M. ; Hartono, Z.A. ; Robiah, I. CAUSES OF WIND TURBINE BLADE DAMAGES DUE TO LIGHTNING AND FUTURE RESEARCH TARGET TO GET BETTER PROTECTION MEASURES .................................................................................................................... 823 Yokoyama, Shigeru ; Honjo, Nobuyuki ; Yasuda, Yoh ; Yamamoto, Kazuo LIGHTNING DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BEIJING-SHANGHAI HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY CORRIDOR ............................................................................................................................................................................... 831 Yan, Biwu ; Gu, Shanqiang ; Wang, Tao ; Xiang, Nianwen ; Li, Tao ; Su, Jie ; Lu, Zejun VISUALIZATION OF LIGHTNING IMPULSE CURRENT DISCHARGE ON CFRP LAMINATE .............................................. 835 Sonehara, Takeo ; Kusano, Hideaki ; Tokuoka, Nobuyuki ; Hirano, Yoshiyasu ACCIDENT OF AUTOMOBILE DUE TO LIGHTNING........................................................................................................................ 840 Yamamoto, Kazuo ; Naito, Yuta ; Yanagawa, Shunichi ; Takahashi, Naoto ; Matsui, Michihiro EMTP MODELS OF A WIND TURBINE GROUNDING SYSTEM...................................................................................................... 845 Yamamoto, Kazuo ; Sumi, Shinichi RESEARCH ON LIGHTNING PROTECTION PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY TRACTION NETWORK .............................................................................................................................................................................. 850 Yan, Biwu ; Gu, Shanqiang ; Xiang, Nianwen ; Li, Tao ; Su, Jie ; Lu, Zejun COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NEWLY-PUBLISHED IEC 61643-311 AND -312 FOR LIGHTNING PROTECTIVE COMPONENT GDT .......................................................................................................................................................... 854 Zhou, Qibin ; Zhao, Yang ; Liu, Feifan ; Zhang, Junshan ESTIMATION OF LIGHTNING OVERVOLTAGES ACCORDING TO LIGHTNING CONDITIONS AND EFFECT ON DECREASING LIGHTNING HAZARDS DUE TO SPD FOR RAILWAY SIGNALLING SYSTEMS........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 857 Arai, Hideki ; Ono, Yuto ; Sugimoto, Keiji ; Hizawa, Youhei SUMMARY OF GROUNDING SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT OF TRACTION SUBSTATION AROUND TOKYO IN EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY ................................................................................................................................................. 863 Hayashiya, Hitoshi ; Ozaki, Takashi ; Fukano, Tomonori ; Sato, Naomi ; Koguchi, Norio GROUNDING SYSTEM DESIGN IMPROVEMENT BY COMPRESSION RATIO AND GROUND ROD METHODS IN POWER DISTRIBUTION SUBSTATION ...................................................................................................................... 869 Rugthaicharoencheep, N. ; Phayomhom, A. TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION ON THE GLOW TO STREAMER TRANSITION FROM HORIZONTAL CONDUCTORS................................................................................................................................................................. 873 Liu, Lipeng ; Becerra, Marley EFFECT OF WIND ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE CORONA DISCHARGE IONIZED FIELD GENERATED FROM GROUNDED WIRE DURING THUNDERSTORMS ....................................................................................... 879 Zou, Yanhui ; He, Junjia ; He, Hengxin LIGHTNING PROTECTION OF CHINA RAILWAY VEHICLE RUNNING SAFETY MONITOR SYSTEM INTERNET OF THINGS IN LIGHTNING PROTECTION.................................................................................................................... 885 Chun, Ling RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-INDUCTANCE AND MUTUAL INDUCTANCE OF DOWNCONDUCTORS.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 890 Shulzhenko, Eduard ; Drebenstedt, Christian ; Rock, Michael ; Brocke, Ralph REDUCTION OF FIELD INTENSITY ON LIGHTNING PROTECTED INSTALLATIONS WITH EX ZONES TO AVOID UPWARD LEADERS............................................................................................................................................................... 898 Rock, Michael ; Shulzhenko, Eduard APPLYING OF SURGE ARRESTERS IN POWER ELECTRONIC NETWORK COMPONENTS ................................................ 904 Shulzhenko, Eduard ; Rock, Michael ; Birle, Matthias ; Leu, Carsten ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT ON THE LARGE FLOATING ROOF OIL TANKS STRUCK BY INDIRECT LIGHTNING BASED ON FDTD ................................................................................................................................................................. 911 Liu, Yakun ; Fu, Zhengcai ; Jiang, Anfeng ; Liu, Quanzhen ; Liu, Baoquan ASSESSMENT OF LIGHTNING BACKFLASH OUTAGE RATE OF QUADRUPLE-CIRCUIT TRANSMISSION LINES DUE TO SUBSEQUENT STROKES ............................................................................................................. 917 Huang, Bo ; Fu, Zhengcai ; Jiang, Anfeng ; Wang, Guoli ; Li, Ruihai REMOTE ONLINE OBSERVATION SYSTEM OF POWER SYSTEM LIGHTNING STROKE.................................................... 922 Huang, Bo ; Fu, Zhengcai ; Chen, Jian ; Gu, Chengyu ON THE BENDING EFFECTS OF A COPPER-TYPE DOWN CONDUCTOR .................................................................................. 927 Ariffen, A.M. ; Ab-Kadir, M.Z.A. ; Gomes, C. ; Jasni, J. ; Izadi, M. IMPACT OF DISTRIBUTION LINE INSULATED TOWER HEAD AND CROSS ARMS ON LIGHTNING SURGES IN 10 KV SUBSTATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................... 936 He, Yuwei ; Fu, Zhengcai ; Jiang, Anfeng ; Wu, Aijun ; Wang, Guangli FIELD EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE MEASUREMENT OF GROUNDING RESISTANCE OF BUILDINGS IN WATER .............................................................................................................................................................................. 942 Yang, Lei ; Qin, Bin-quan ; Luo, Fang ; Mi, Xiang ; Li, Liang-fu GROUNDING IMPEDANCE CALCULATION OF STEEL MONOPILE FOUNDATIONS OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES IN INTERTIDAL ZONE............................................................................................................................................. 946 Zheng, Z.N. ; Wang, J.G. ; Fan, Y.D. ; Li, X.Q. ; Zhou, M. ; Wu, J.C. ; Zhang, B.Q. ; Wang, S.C. EVALUATION OF LIGHTNING-INDUCED VOLTAGES OVER LOSSY GROUND WITH FREQUENCYDEPENDENT SOIL PARAMETERS.......................................................................................................................................................... 950 Silveira, Fernando H. ; Conti, Alberto De ; Visacro, Silverio LIGHTNING-CAUSED TRANSFORMER FAILURES IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS .................................................................. 955 Piantini, Alexandre ; Janiszewski, Jorge M. ; de Carvalho, Thais O. ; Obase, Paulo F. ; Dos Santos, Gilnei J.G. SIMPLIFIED RISK ASSESSMENT OF LIGHTNING PROTECTION ................................................................................................ 961 Szedenik, Norbert ; Bodocs, Tamas ; Berta, Istvan NEGATIVE LIGHTNING CURRENT PARAMETERS AND DETECTION EFFICIENCY FOR TWO OPERATIONAL LLS IN CATALONIA (NE SPAIN) .............................................................................................................................. 966 March, Victor ; Montanya, Joan ; Pineda, Nicolau LIGHTNING FLASH PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM LIGHTNING MAPPING ARRAY DATA ............................................... 974 Montanya, Joan ; Velde, Oscar van der ; Sola, Gloria ; Fabro, Feran ; Romero, David ; Pineda, Nicolau ; Argemi, Oriol IMPLEMENTATION OF LEADER DEVELOPMENT MODELS IN ATP-EMTP USING A TYPE-94 CIRCUIT COMPONENT................................................................................................................................................................................................ 979 Datsios, Zacharias G. ; Mikropoulos, Pantelis N. CLASSIFICATION OF WIND TURBINE BLADE INCIDENTS REGARDING LIGHTNING RISK MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 986 Yasuda, Yoh ; Fujii, Toshiaki ; Yamamoto, Kazuo ; Honjo, Nobuyuki ; Yokoyama, Shigeru IDENTIFICATION OF ASYMMETRIES IN BIDIRECTIONAL LEADER DEVELOPMENT BY MEANS OF THE LIGHTNING MAPPING ARRAY ..................................................................................................................................................... 992 Montanya, Joan ; Velde, Oscar van der MULTIPLE SHOTS ON SPDS —ADDITIONAL TESTS........................................................................................................................ 997 Rousseau, Alain ; Zang, Xuyun ; Tao, Ming COMPREHENSIVE OBSERVATION OF LEADER CHARACTERISTICS USING TVLS ........................................................... 1002 Qiu, Shi ; Jiang, ZhiDong ; Shi, Lihua ; Wang, YanNa AN EXAMPLE OF LIGHTNING-PROTECTION MEASURES IN RAILWAY SIGNALING SYSTEMS ................................... 1006 Yanagawa, Shunichi ; Yamamoto, Kazuo THE INFLUENCE OF FREQUENCY DEPENDENT SOIL PARAMETERS ON TRANSMISSION LINE.................................. 1010 Li, Zhen ; He, Jinliang ; Zhang, Bo THE REALIZATION OF TRIGGERING LIGHTNING ON DBS TOWER AND CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS OF LIGHTNING CURRENT WAVEFORM...................................................................................................................... 1014 Yan, Xu ; Chen, Chang ; Chen, Shaodong ; Huang, Zhihui ; Dai, Chuanyou ; Wang, Qiwei ; Zhang, Xinghai LIGHTNING DISCHARGES ACCOMPANIED BY INITIAL BREAKDOWN PULSES ................................................................ 1018 Zhang, Yang ; Zhang, Yijun ; Lu, Weitao ; Zheng, Dong ; Chen, Shaodong IMPROVEMENT OF PROTECTION SYSTEM AGAINST WIRE BREAK CAUSED BY LIGHTNING OVERVOLTAGE IN DC TRACTION SYSTEM.................................................................................................................................... 1021 Shibata, Naoki ; Morimoto, Hiroaki ; Yoshii, Tsurugi ; Uematsu, Syouji ; Hayashiya, Hitoshi COORDINATION OF DYNAMIC LIGHTNING PROTECTION AND SMART GRIDS STATE ESTIMATION ...................... 1027 Tong, Chong ; Gao, Yuan ; Wang, Qing ; Tong, Minguang ; Luo, Junping ; Li, Jingru ; Wei, Bo ; Yu, Dan ; Xu, Jian ; Zhang, Chengxue INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT COUPLING GROUND WIRE ERECTING MODE ON LIGHTNING WITHSTAND PERFORMANCE FOR MULTI-CIRCUIT TRANSMISSION LINE IN A TOWER .............................................. 1036 Zhao, Yuan ; Su, Jie ; Gu, Shangqiang ; Ren, Hua ; Zhao, Chun THE IMPACTS OF OCS MAST SHORT-CIRCUIT ON SIGNAL CABLES IN RAILWAY YARD.............................................. 1041 He, Fangfang ; Cao, Xiaobin ; Han, Hu 3D ELECTRIC GEOMETRY MODEL ON DIRECT LIGHTNING AND INDUCED LIGHTNING TRIP-OUT RISK OF ELECTRIC RAILWAY............................................................................................................................................................. 1045 Su, Jie ; Gu, Shangqiang ; Ren, Hua ; Zhao, Chun THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON SEVERE WEATHER CONCERN, KNOWLEDGE AND PREPAREDNESS AMONG MALAYSIANS ..................................................................................................... 1050 Aini, M.S. ; Elistina, A.B. ; Ab Kadir, M.Z.A ; Gomes, C. ; Keul, A.G. RESEARCH ON THE LIGHTNING RISK ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR CHONGQING BASED ON FUZZY MATHEMATICS ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1054 Yu, Shuyu ; Ren, Yan CHARACTERIZATION OF MEASURED LIGHTNING ELECTRIC FIELDS OBSERVED IN MALAYSIA ............................ 1058 Arshad, S.N.M. ; Ab Kadir, M.Z.A ; Izadi, M. ; Hamzah, M.N. ; Gomes, Chandima ; Jasni, J. TWO CASE STUDIES ON ENERGY AND PROTECTION LEVEL COORDINATION OF AN SPD SYSTEM ......................... 1064 Ito, Hidetoshi ; Terashima, Koji ; Yun, Sun LIGHTNING LOCATING SYSTEMS: CHARACTERISTICS AND VALIDATION TECHNIQUES ........................................... 1070 Nag, Amitabh ; Murphy, Martin J. ; Schulz, Wolfgang ; Cummins, Kenneth L. ANALYSIS OF ADDITIONAL TESTS FOR SPD'S FAILURE MODE IN IEC61643.11 ................................................................. 1083 Yang, Guohua ; Wang, Chongling ; Dai, Dezhi ; Wan, Kaili CALCULATION OF CURRENT DISTRIBUTION DURING DIRECT STRIKES TO LIGHTNING PROTECTIVE SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1087 Wang, Ping ; Li, Lin EVALUATION OF SPDS FOR A PV SYSTEM USING THE FDTD METHOD TAKING CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS INTO CONSIDERATION............................................................................................................................................ 1091 Yonezawa, Kaname ; Mochizuki, Sho ; Takahashi, Yuichi ; Idogawa, Teruo ; Morii, Nobuyuki HIGH RESOLUTION OBSERVATION ON ROCKET-TRIGGERED LIGHTNING ...................................................................... 1095 Qie, Xiushu ; Jiang, Rubin ; Sun, Zhuling ; Liu, Mingyuan ; Wang, Zhichao ; Lu, Gaopeng ; Zhang, Hongbo PROGRESS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MEASURING INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETECTION OF PRE-DISCHARGES ON A LIGHTNING ROD UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A NEGATIVE DOWNWARD LEADER........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1100 Hannig, Martin ; Hinrichsen, Volker ; Brocke, Ralph LIGHTNING STUDY AND EXPERIENCE ON THE FIRST 500KV TRANSMISSION LINE ARRESTER IN MALAYSIA .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1106 Rawi, Iryani Mohamed ; Kadir, M.Z.A.Ab. ; Azis, Norhafiz EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF DISCONNECTOR UNDER LARGE POWER FREQUENCY CURRENT......................... 1110 Dai, Dezhi ; Wang, Chonglin ; Lei, Chengyong ; Wan, Kaili ; Zheng, Yan ; Hou, Jun THE POSITION OF THE MEDIA AS A TOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION ON SEVERE WEATHER IN MALAYSIA....................................................................................................................................................................... 1114 Elistina, A.B. ; Aini, M.S ; Ab Kadir, M.Z.A ; Gomes, C. ; Keul, A.G. COMPARISON OF IMPULSIVE PROCESS SUPERIMPOSED ON CONTINUOUS CURRENT OF TRIGGERED LIGHTNING ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1118 Xie, Meng ; Xie, Meng ; Zhang, Yang ; Zhang, Yijun ; Lu, Weitao ; Zheng, Dong SURGE ANALYSIS OF ONSHORE WIND FARM DUE TO MULTIPLE LIGHTNING STROKES............................................ 1122 Jiang, Anfeng ; Fu, Zhengcai ; He, Yuwei ; Wei, Bengang ; Wang, Liming INFLUENCE OF GROUND WIRE PROTECTION ANGLE ON UPWARD LEADER FROM 110–1000 KV AC LINES ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1128 Wang, Xi ; He, Jinliang ; Yu, ZhanQing ; Zeng, Rong ; Shen, Xiaoli TIME-FREQUENCY PROFILE OF DISCHARGE PROCESSES PRIOR TO THE FIRST RETURN STROKE........................ 1134 Esa, M.R.M. ; Ahmad, M.R. ; Cooray, V. ; Esa, Mona Riza Mohd A GIGANTIC JET EVENT OVER A SUMMER STORM IN CHINA ................................................................................................ 1138 Yang, Jing ; Feng, GuiLi OCCURRENCE OF NARROW BIPOLAR PULSES BETWEEN NEGATIVE RETURN STROKES IN TROPICAL THUNDERSTORMS............................................................................................................................................................. 1141 Esa, M.R.M. ; Ahmad, M.R. ; Cooray, V. ; Esa, Mona Riza Mohd STUDY ON THE ELECTRICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ZNO VARISTOR ACCORDING TO THE SINTERING TEMPERATURE ................................................................................................................................................. 1143 Kang, Sung-Man ; Lee, Jae-Bok ; Choi, Seung-Kyu ; Ju, Mun-No ; Kim, Ho-dong ; Jung, Jun-Young ; Shenderey, S.V. ; Jung, Hyun-Hak ; Jung, Kyong-Jin A NON-CONTACT ELECTRO-OPTIC SENSOR FOR LIGHTNING OVERVOLTAGE MEASUREMENT ............................. 1147 Han, Rui ; Yang, Qing ; Sima, Wenxia ; Yuan, Tao ; Dong, Heng ; Sun, Shangpeng THE ANALYSIS OF A LIGHTNING ACCIDENT ON THE RESIDENT HOUSE WHICH IS RENTED BY THE BASE STATION........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1151 Nianzeng, Niu ; Chenqiang RESEARCH ON NEW GROUNDING TECHNOLOGY OF TRANSMISSION LINE TOWER IN KARST AREA .................... 1154 Liu, Sanwei ; Sima, Wenxia ; Yuan, Tao ; Yang, Qing RESEARCH ON POWER FREQUENCY ARC MOVEMENT PROCESS OF INSULATOR IN RING SHAPE PARALLEL GAP LIGHTNING PROTECTION DEVICE ................................................................................................................... 1158 Wang, Qi ; Sima, Wenxia ; Yang, Qing ; Yuan, Tao ; Zhang, Zhi THE INFLUENCE OF METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS ON UPWARD LIGHTNING INITIATION AT THE GAISBERG TOWER ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1162 Zhou, Helin ; Diendorfer, Gerhard ; Thottappillil, Rajeev ; Pichler, Hannes ; Mair, Martin EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF OVERVOLTAGE ON DISTRIBUTION LINES INDUCED BY ARTIFICIALLY ROCKET-TRIGGERED LIGHTNING .................................................................................................................................................... 1166 Wang, ZeZhong ; Yu, ZhanQing ; Zeng, Rong ; Huang, Ying RESEARCH ON LIGHTNING-PROOF REACTOR FOR LIGHTNING PROTECTION TO RAILWAY SUBSTATION FEEDER SIDE................................................................................................................................................................... 1169 Deng, Yunchuan ; Lin, Zongliang ; Cao, Xiaobin ; Yi, Zhixing TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LIGHTNING IN GUANGDONG REGION .......................................... 1173 Zhang, Chuanyan ; Huang, Yangang ; Mai, Boru ; Wen, Nanzhen NEW TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR DISTRIBUTION ARRESTERS................................................................................................ 1177 Richter, Bernhard EXTREMELY HIGH LIGHTNING CURRENTS A NEWLY DESIGNED SURGE GENERATOR AND SOME PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS................................................................................................................................................................. 1183 Birkl, Josef ; Zahlmann, Peter EMI STUDY ON DOWN-CONDUCTORS SPACING ........................................................................................................................... 1189 Jaeseok, Yoo ; Jaewook, Lee ; Hyunsung, Park NEW TEST STANDARD FOR MO SURGE ARRESTERS .................................................................................................................. 1194 Richter, Bernhard CONTINUOUS MONITORING ON 132KV LINE IN REDUCING FLASHOVERS DUE TO LIGHTNING ............................... 1198 Rawi, Iryani Mohamed ; Kadir, M.Z.A.Ab. ; Azis, Norhafiz ANALYSIS OF THE LIGHTNING DISASTER CHARACTERISTICS OF HERITAGE BUILDINGS ........................................ 1201 Zhang, Huaming ; Yijun, Zhang ; Yaolong, Liu ; Xi, Lu ; Shigang, Yang ; Qiang, Li ADVANCED REQUIREMENTS ON SPDS PROTECTING SENSITIVE EQUIPMENT ................................................................ 1206 Li, Hongjun ; Xu, Niansheng ; Chen, Weie ; Brocke, Ralph EVALUATION OF LIGHTNING ATTACHMENT AND COUPLING MODELS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF THE LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE OF OVERHEAD DISTRIBUTION LINES ........................................................................... 1212 Mikropoulos, Pantelis N. ; Tsovilis, Thomas E. ; Pori, Aikaterini S. LIGHTNING-INDUCED SURGES IN BUILDING ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS................................................................................. 1217 Du, Y. ; Li, Binghao ; Chen, Mingli USE OF DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF HUMAN TISSUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF LIGHTNING INJURIES.................... 1223 Lee, Y-C.H. ; Rubin, D.M. ; Jandrell, I.R. USE OF HIGH RESOLUTION FLASH DENSITY DATA AND GIS ANALYSIS METHODS IN POWER UTILITIES NETWORKS ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1229 Lakota, Gasper ; Milev, Goran ; Djurica, Vladimir ; Zitnik, Boris DEVELOPMENT OF SHORT-BASELINE TIME-DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL LOCATION SYSTEM AND OBSERVATIONS ON LIGHTNING DISCHARGE ............................................................................................................................... 1234 Sun, Zhuling ; Qie, Xiushu ; Jiang, Rubin ; Liu, Mingyuan RISK MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO IEC 62305-2 EDITION 2: 2010–12 ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURES WITH A RISK OF EXPLOSION................................................................................................................................... 1237 Kern, Alexander ; Braun, Christian OVERHEAD LINES LIGHTNING PROTECTION BY MULTI-CHAMBER ARRESTERS AND INSULATORARRESTERS ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1243 Podporkin, Georgij V. ; Pilshikov, Vladimir E. ; Kalakutsky, Evgeniy S. ; Sivaev, Alexander D. THE APPLICATION AND RESEARCH OF THE METEOROLOGICAL DATA IN LIGHTNING PROTECTION FOR OIL DEPOTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 1250 Fengjiao, Liu ; Kai, Su ; Yao, Tang ; Jiayang, Yang ; Yanqing, Liu SIMULATION DESIGN OF HARNESS PROTECTION AGAINST LIGHTNING FOR AIRCRAFTS ........................................ 1254 Sun, Cheng ; Zhang, Min LIGHTNING ENVIRONMENT IN BURUNDI ....................................................................................................................................... 1258 Nibigira, Edward ; Gomes, Chandima LOW REPEATIBILITY INVESTIGATION OF PARAMETERS MEASUREMENT IN NON-CONDUCT ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE ............................................................................................................................................................ 1262 Yu, Yakun ; Ruan, Fangming ; Zhu, Wei ; Yang, Xiangdong ; Li, Guangcan HOW THE LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE OF ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS IS AFFECTED BY THE FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE OF SOIL PARAMETERS ................................................................................................................... 1267 Visacro, Silverio ; Silveira, Fernando H. ; Alipio, Rafael AN UNUSUAL TWO-STROKE NEGATIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND FLASH SHOWING PROFUSE BRANCHING AND CORONA-LIKE FORMATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 1272 Tran, M.D. ; Rakov, V.A. ; Mallick, S. LIGHTNING PROTECTION FOR THE HOLY MOSQUE AND THE JAMARAT BRIDGE IN MAKKAH .............................. 1282 Hartono, Z.A. ; Robiah, I. MODELING OF ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE WITH VERTICAL ROD PROTECTION............................................................. 1287 Khelil, D. ; Bouazabia, S. ; Munzunzi, MM. ; Omari, Z. LIGHTNING ACTIVITY IN TYPHOON MORAKOT(0908)............................................................................................................... 1291 Wen, Ying ; Zhao, Yang ; Kong, Xiangzhen RECOGNITION OF LIGHTNING-INDUCED TRAUMA TO THE SKELETON: A FORENSIC TAPHONOMIC STUDY........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1299 Bacci, Nicholas ; Augustine, Tanya ; ARandolph-Quinney, Patrick ; Hunt, Hugh ; Nixon, Ken EXPERIMENT RESEARCH OF CFRP DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING CURRENT..................................................................... 1303 Yinghui, Zhou ; Shangchen, Fu ; Lihua, Shi ; Qing, Si ; Zhengyu, Huang THE EFFECT OF SOIL IONIZATION ON THE LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE OF TRANSMISSION LINES ..................... 1307 de Souza, Ronaldo E. ; Silveira, Fernando H. ; Visacro, Silverio SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DISCHARGES FROM ARTIFICIAL CHARGED AEROSOL CLOUD........................ 1312 Temnikov, A.G. ; Chernensky, L.L. ; Orlov, A.V. ; Belova, O.S. ; Zimin, A.S. THE FEM MODEL OF GROUNDING SYSTEM IMPULSE CHARACTERISTIC CONSIDERING SOIL FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE .................................................................................................................................................................. 1320 Li, Jingli ; Qiao, Zhiyuan ; Wu, Dongya DEVELOPING AN APPROXIMATION TO THE HEIDLER FUNCTION - WITH AN ANALYTICAL TRANSFORMATION INTO THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN ............................................................................................................... 1326 Terespolsky, Brett R. ; Nixon, Ken J. ON THE BEHAVIOR OF LIGHTNING CURRENT AND CHARGE DENSITY IN THE CASE OF TALL TOWER ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1331 Rahim, N.Abdul ; Izadi, M. ; AbKadir, M.Z.A. ; Gomes, C. ; Hasni, J. ; Rameli, N. SHIELDING FAILURE EVALUATION BY COLLECTION SURFACE........................................................................................... 1336 Xie, Qizhang ; Baron, Stephane ; Fortin, Simon ; Lefebvre, Sylvie ; Dawalibi, Farid P. LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS OF A SQUALL LINE PROCESS.............................................................................................. 1340 Huang, Yangang ; Zhang, Chuanyan ; Wu, Zhiquan ; Wang, Fude AN ANALYTICAL CONSIDERATION ON THE STRIKING PROBABILITY AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF STRIKES TO SIMPLE STRUCTURES ACCORDING TO STANDARDIZED REGULATIONS .................................................. 1343 Hannig, Martin ; Hinrichsen, Volker ; Hannig, Ronald ; Brocke, Ralph ANALYSIS THE LIGTHNING ACCIDENT OF MASS RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM AND DISCUSSION THE GROUNDING............................................................................................................................................................................................... 1351 Tian, Kun ; Jin, Xiaobin ; Wu, Junwei ; Zhang, Xiaofeng ; Bu, Junwei CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING ACTIVITY IN A HAILSTORM OVER THE CENTRAL LOWER LATITUDE PLATEAU OF CHINA .......................................................................................................................................................... 1358 Xie, Yiran ; Wu, Jian ; Zhang, Tengfei ; Liu, Xuetao VOLUME 3 RESEARCH ON THE CHARGE DISTRIBUTION OF LIGHTNING STEPPED LEADER CONSIDERING THE BRANCHES .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1361 Shi, Wei ; Li, Qingmin CIRCUIT BEHAVIOR DURING OPERATION DUTY TEST APPLYING SPARK GAP TECHNOLOGY BASED ARRESTERS.................................................................................................................................................................................. 1365 Kopp, Tobias Hartmut ; Kurrat, Michael ; Schottel, Bernd LIGHTNING RETURN STROKE CURRENT RECONSTRUCTION OR VERTICAL AND VARIABLE CHANNEL SHAPE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1370 Ceclan, Andrei ; Holhos, Adrian ; Micu, Dan D. ; Spinean, Sorin ; Czumbil, Levente ; Andreotti, Amedeo ON THE INTERCEPTION OF DART LIGHTNING LEADERS FROM WIND TURBINE BLADES .......................................... 1376 Long, Mengni ; Garcia, Marley Becerra ; Thottappillil, Rajeev ANALYSIS OF LIGHTNING EVENTS PRECEDING UPWARD FLASHES FROM GAISBERG AND SÄNTIS TOWERS....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1382 Smorgonskiy, Alexander ; Tajalli, Alaleh ; Rachidi, Farhad ; Rubinstein, Marcos ; Diendorfer, Gerhard ; Pichler, Hannes LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE OF GROUNDING SYSTEMS OF OVERHEAD LINES............................................................... 1386 Visacro, Silverio ; Silveira, Fernando Henrique SOME ASPECTS OF GLOBAL LIGHTNING IMPACTS .................................................................................................................... 1390 Holle, Ronald L. USING A COUPLED TRANSMISSION LINE NETWORK APPROACH TO CALCULATE THE TRANSIENT CURRENT IN LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM OF A PRATT TRUSS BRIDGE ................................................................ 1396 Zhang, Yan ; Liu, Fugui ; Wang, Youhua ; Liu, Rongmei ; Li, Yanan INVESTIGATIONS ON THE INFLUENCE OF SURGE CURRENT ON PLASMA IN A MODEL SPARK GAP ...................... 1400 Schottel, Bernd ; Kopp, Tobias ; Schmutz, Jan-Erik ; Runge, Tobias ; Kurrat, Michael HIERARCHY OF HAZARD CONTROL TO MINIMIZE LIGHTNING RISK................................................................................. 1405 Gomes, Ashen ; Gomes, Chandima MODELING LIGHTNING CURRENT DISTRIBUTION IN CONDUCTIVE ELEMENTS OF A WIND TURBINE BLADE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 1415 Smorgonskiy, Alexander ; Rachidi, Farhad ; Rubinstein, Marcos IMPULSE CHARACTERIZATION OF GROUND ELECTRODES ................................................................................................... 1418 Harid, N. ; Clark, D. ; Mousa, S. ; Griffiths, H. ; Haddad, A. LIGHTNING CURRENT MEASUREMENT WITH FIBER-OPTIC SENSOR ................................................................................. 1424 Nguyen, Truong X. ; Ely, Jay J. ; Szatkowski, George N. ; Mata, Carlos T. ; Mata, Angel G. ; Snyder, Gary P. A NEW MODEL FOR THE FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE OF SOIL PARAMETERS ................................................................. 1432 Alipio, Rafael ; Visacro, Silverio MEASUREMENT OF PRELIMINARY BREAKDOWN PULSE TRAINS IN CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING USING LIGHTNING LOCATING SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................... 1437 Nag, Amitabh ; Rakov, Vladimir A. ; Murphy, Martin J. HIGH SPEED VIDEO OBSERVATION ON RANDOM STEPPING AND BRANCHING OF NEGATIVE LEADER........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1445 Jiang, Rubin ; Qie, Xiushu ; Liu, Mingyuan ; Lu, Gaopeng ; Sun, Zhulin ; Wang, Zhichao ; Wu, Xueke ; Zhang, Hongbo ; Liu, Kun ; Li, Xun A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND STRATEGIC APPROACH TO HOLISTIC LIGHTNING SAFETY AND PROTECTION SOLUTIONS..................................................................................................................................................................... 1448 McKechnie, I.S. ; Jandrell, I.R. HIGH FREQUENCY AND IMPULSE EARTHING FOR SURGE ARRESTERS ............................................................................. 1454 Griffiths, H. ; Van De Linde, F. ; Ullah, N ; Haddad, A ; Harid, N. ROCKET-AND-WIRE TRIGGERED LIGHTNING EXPERIMENTS: A REVIEW AND UPDATE............................................. 1460 Rakov, Vladimir A. INVESTIGATION OF THE DEHYDRATION EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING IMPULSES ............................................................... 1467 Cornish, D.R. ; Lee, Y-C.H. ; von Poser, M. ; Nixon, K.J. ; Jandrell, I.R. STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF CURRENT AMPLITUDES AND LIGHTNING INCIDENCE NUMBER TO STRUCTURES OF VARIOUS CONFIGURATIONS...................................................................................................................... 1472 Shostak, Volodymyr ; Tyulyukov, Volodymyr CHARACTERISTICS OF LIGHTNING AT TALL STRUCTURES AND ADJACENT AREAS BASED ON DETECTION NETWORK DATA ............................................................................................................................................................. 1479 Shostak, Volodymyr ; Bormotov, Olexandr ; Smatloch, Thomas EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF TRANSIENTS AND ELECTRICAL FIELDS CAUSED BY LIGHTNING FLASHOVER IN THE UHVDC CONVERTER STATION .................................................................................................................. 1491 Zhang, Xiao ; He, Jinliang ; Yu, ZhanQing ; Zeng, Rong ; Li, Chanxiao ; Huang, Yin ; Qiu, Wei IMPLICATIONS OF LIGHTNING EMISSIONS FOR TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES AND ASSOCIATED LIGHTNING DISCHARGES.......................................................................................................................................... 1496 Lu, Gaopeng ; Cummer, Steven A. HIGH VOLTAGE IMPULSE EXPERIMENT ON ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES AND ITS VERIFICATION ........................... 1503 Naito, Yuta ; Yanagawa, Shunichi ; Yamamoto, Kazuo LIGHTNING TRIP-OUT RISK EVALUATION OF A 220KV TRANSMISSION LINE IN SHIYAN............................................ 1508 Sun, Tao ; Liu, Hua ; Qi, Yulong ; Li, Han ; Zhou, Wenjun ; Yu, Jianhui RESEARCH ON FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF GROUNDING GIRDS BASED ON INTELLIGENCE HYBRID METHOD ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1512 Zhang, Tao ; Tan, Xiaorui ; Zhang, Yin STUDY ON OVERVOLTAGE OF SIGNAL LINE IN WIND TURBINE BY LIGHTNING STRIKE............................................ 1516 Zhang, Tao ; Zhang, Yin ; Tan, Xiaorui VARIATION OF MINIMUM SAFETY SEPARATION FOR NON-CONDUCTING LIGHTNING TARGETS .......................... 1520 Nourirad, Ghasem ; Izadi, Mahdi ; Gomes, Chandima ; Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin IMPACT AND FORM OF LIMIT PEAK VOLTAGE ON MULTI-CLASS SURGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT.......................... 1524 Wang, Jiongqi ; Xu, Jiayi CHARACTERIZATION OF FAR ELECTRIC FIELD WAVEFORMS PRODUCED BY ROCKETTRIGGERED LIGHTNING ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1527 Mallick, S. ; Rakov, V.A. ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES FOR RURAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS .............................................................................. 1535 Boaventura, Wallace C. ; Paulino, Jose Osvaldo S. ; Lopes, Ivan Jose S. ; Miranda, Glassio C. ; Baeta, Ines M.F.D. ; Santos F., Nilton dos LIGHTNING SAFETY AGAINST SIDE FLASHES: INFLUENCE OF FLOATING ELECTRODES ON GAP BREAKDOWN ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1541 Nourirad, Ghasem ; Izadi, Mahdi ; Gomes, Chandima ; Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin ANALYSIS AND TEST ON ELECTRIC FIELD CONCENTRATION EFFECT OF BIPOLAR CONVENTIONAL AIR TERMINAL ....................................................................................................................................................... 1545 Chung, Young-ki ; Lee, Kang-soo ; Lee, Bok-hee ANALYSIS OF TRANSIENT RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS AND FREQUENCY-DEPENDANT GROUND IMPEDANCE OF CARBON GROUND MODULE ................................................................................................................................ 1549 Lee, Kang-soo ; Chung, Young-ki ; Lee, Bok-hee LINET SYSTEMS - 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE ...................................................................................................................................... 1553 Betz, Hans D. ; Meneux, Baptiste QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN ±1100KV HVDC CONVERTER VALVE TOWER UNDER VARIOUS TRIASIENT OVER-VOLTAGE CONDITIONS .................................................................. 1558 Liu, Chen-long ; Shuai, Qi ; Qi, Lei ; Cui, Xiang ; Fang, Chao ; Wei, Xiaoguang STUDY OF EFFECT ON ADJACENT RESIDENTS FROM THE RADIO BASE STATION TOWER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1565 Qi, Zheng ; Liu, Jike ; Lin, YongJiang A SIMULATION TOOL TO ASSESS THE LIGHTNING INDUCED OVER-VOLTAGES ON DC CABLES OF PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATIONS..................................................................................................................................................... 1571 Charalambous, Charalambos A. ; Kokkinos, Nikolaos ; Christofides, Nicholas ; Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin ; Gomes, Chandima BEHAVIOR OF LOW VOLTAGE VARISTORS UNDER VERY FAST OSCILLATORY TYPE CURRENT IMPULSE ENVIRONMENT...................................................................................................................................................................... 1577 Kumara, LA Duminda ; Edirisinghe, Mahesh ; Cooray, Vernon DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL OBSERVATIONS OF A LONG-PERIOD VHF BROADBAND DIGITAL INTERFEROMETER.................................................................................................................................................................................. 1583 Nakamura, Yoshitaka ; Elbaghdady, Lotfy Samy Mohammed ; Wu, Ting ; Ushio, Tomoo ; Kawasaki, Zen CONTINUING CURRENTS AND LUMINOSITY OF CLOUD FLASHES........................................................................................ 1587 Perera, Chandana ; Fernando, Mahendra ; Vayanganie, SPA ; Cooray, Vernon UPWARD AND DOWNWARD LIGHTNING OBSERVED AT TOKYO SKYTREE....................................................................... 1594 Miki, Toru ; Saito, Mikihisa ; Shindo, Takatoshi ; Tanaka, Daiki ; Asakawa, Akira ; Motoyama, Hideki ; Ishii, Masaru ; Suzuhigashi, Yusuke ; Taguchi, Hiroshi OPTIMISED TRANSMISSION TOWER EARTHING: EXPERIENCE IN DESIGN AND OPERATION ................................... 1600 Rahman, N.A.Abdul ; Marican, A.M.Ahmad ; Ab.Kadir, M.Z.A. STUDY ON APPLICABLE CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION LINE TOWER FOUNDATION NATURAL GROUNDING IN LESS THUNDERSTORM DAYS REGION IN NORTHWEST CHINA.............................................................. 1604 Jiang, Jian ; Sun, Haifeng ; An, Ning ; Shi, Ying ; Zhang, Zhongyuan ; Jing, Yongming STUDY ON CRITICAL LIGHTNING PROTECTION AND GROUNDING TECHNOLOGIES FOR RADIO BASE STATION........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1610 Liu, Jike ; Zhu, Qingfeng ; Qi, Zheng A SIMPLE SURGE ARRESTER MODEL EXTRACTED FROM EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS.................................................. 1616 Triruttanapiruk, Nawakun ; Yutthagowith, Peerawut INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT MONITORING SYSTEM FOR LIGHTNING ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE PROTECTION OF SERVICE STATION ................................................................................................................................................ 1621 Zhao, Fucai ; Fu, Jian ; Zeng, Zicheng ; Lin, Jianzheng ; Sun, Tao ; Li, Xiaodong THE SIMULATION RESEARCH ON THE IMPULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GROUNDING ELECTRODE IN THE LAYERED SOIL................................................................................................................................................. 1625 Zhang, Fu ; Chang, An ; Yang, Yueguang ; Cao, Bin ; Wei, Shaodong ; Zhou, Wenjun ; Yang, Shuai ON VALIDATION OF FCCFS FOR LIGHTNING STRIKING TALL OBJECTS CONSIDERING PROPAGATION EFFECT OF FINITELY CONDUCTING EARTH.................................................................................................. 1629 He, Lixia ; Zhang, Qilin ; Xing, Hongyan ; Hou, Wenhao LIGHTNING CURRENT AND VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF LARGE AXIALLY SYMMETRIC BUDDHIST STUPA IN SRI LANKA .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1637 Gomes, Chandima ; Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin ; Izadi, Mehdi ; Gomes, Ashen EVALUATION OF NERVE STIMULATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD BY LIGHTNING CURRENT PULSES ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1652 Tamus, Z.A. ; Ivancsy, T. ; Kiss, I. ; Szucs, L. SOME FEATURES OF NEGATIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND FLASHES FROM A LOCAL THUNDERSTORM BASED ON ACCURATE-STROKECOUNT STUDY............................................................................................................................. 1657 Zhu, Baoyou ; Ma, Ming ; Xu, Weiwei ; Ma, Dong COMPARISON OF TOHOKU LLS DATA AND LIGHTNING CURRENT WAVEFORMS IN WINTER .................................. 1661 Honma, Noriyasu ; Hongo, Yasuji ; Suzuki, Noriyasu ; Konno, Takaaki EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON POWER FREQUENCY SHORT-CIRCUIT FAILURE OF MOV ................................................ 1671 Ren, Xiaoming ; Wang, Biyun STUDY OF THE MELTING CHARACTERISTICS OF TRANSMISSION LINES AND FITTING DUE TO MULTIPLE IMPULSE CURRENT .......................................................................................................................................................... 1675 Zhou, Qin ; Fu, Zhengcai ; Ren, Xiaoming PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION INTO THE INTERACTION BETWEEN LIGHTNING CURRENT AND RESIN ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1679 von Poser, M. ; Hunt, H.G.P. ; Nixon, K.J. LIGHTNING INDUCED CURRENTS IN ISOLATED TOWERS ....................................................................................................... 1684 Kumar, Udaya ; Ajay, Authors Sruthi UNUSUALLY LONG DURATION LIGHTNING ELECTRIC FIELD RETURN STROKES IN MALAYSIA ............................ 1691 Hamzah, M.N. ; Ab Kadir, M.Z.A. ; Gomes, C. ; Arshad, S.N.M. ; Abdullah, N. ; Hatta, N.M. LIGHTNING MEASUREMENTS AT MORRO DO CACHIMBO STATION: NEW RESULTS.................................................... 1695 Guimaraes, Miguel ; Ramos, Pedro ; Sobreiro, Richard ; Visacro, Silverio OVERVIEW OF IEC STANDARDS' RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LIGHTNING PROTECTION OF ELECTRICAL HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER SYSTEMS USING SURGE ARRESTERS .................................................................. 1701 Hinrichsen, Volker POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE POINT DISCHARGE CORONA CURRENTS: INFLUENCE OF THUNDERSTORM-LIKE WIND VELOCITIES ................................................................................................................................... 1708 Diaz, Jorge ; Ocampo, Gustavo ; Chaves, Sebastian ; Roman, Francisco MAGNETIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION INSIDE METALLIC GRID-LIKE BUILDINGS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING BASED ON FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ................................................................................................................... 1712 Liu, Rongmei ; Wang, Youhua ; Zhao, Zhenghan ; Zhang, Yan TRANSIENT PHENOMENA AT POINT OF STRIKE FOR LIGHTNING STROKES TO CONCRETE WALL OF BUILDING STRUCTURES ................................................................................................................................................................. 1716 Liu, Rongmei ; Wang, Youhua ; Zhao, Zhenghan ; Zhang, Yan TEST AND SIMULATION OF LIGHTNING CURRENT DISTRIBUTION ON A WIND TURBINE BLADE............................ 1720 Romero, David ; Montanya, Joan ; Vinck, Jeroen ELECTRIC FIELD CHANGE OF M COMPONENT ............................................................................................................................ 1725 Vayanganie, S.P.A. ; Gunasekera, T.A.L.N. ; Nanayakkara, S. ; Fernando, M. ; Cooray, V. EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION ON VHF LIGHTNING LOCATION...................................................................... 1729 Li, Yun ; Gao, Taichang ; Jiang, ZhiDong LIGHTNING INCIDENCE ON WIND TURBINES IN WINTER ........................................................................................................ 1734 Ishii, Masaru ; Saito, Mikihisa ; Natsuno, Daisuke ; Sugita, Akiko A STUDY ON LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM - THE EFFECT OF BENDING DEGREE OF THE DOWN CONDUCTOR ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1739 Yusoff, N.M. ; Jasni, J ; Manson, B. ; Ab Kadir, M.Z.A. EVALUATION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN LIGHTNING DETECTION NETWORK USING PHOTOGRAPHED TALL TOWER LIGHTNING EVENTS FROM 2009 – 2013............................................................................. 1746 Hunt, H.G.P. ; Liu, Y.C. ; Nixon, K.J. THE MODERN OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS IN THE APPLICATION OF GROUNDING GRID FAULT DIAGNOSIS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1752 Han, Hu ; Cao, Xiaobin ; Wu, Guangning ; Hu, Jinsong ; He, Fangfang LIGHTNING SHIELDING ANALYSIS OF EHV AND UHV AC TRANSMISSION LINES: THE EFFECT OF OPERATING VOLTAGE AND TERRAIN TOPOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................... 1756 Cuaran, Jose ; Acosta, Jhair ; Becerra, Marley ; Roman, Francisco A ROGOWSKI COIL WITH AN ACTIVE INTEGRATOR FOR MEASUREMENT OF LONG DURATION IMPULSE CURRENTS............................................................................................................................................................................... 1761 Yutthagowith, Peerawut ; Leelachariyakul, Banyat EFFECT OF WAVEFORM AND IMPULSE RESISTANCE ON LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1766 Lantharthong, T. ; Rugthaicharoencheep, N. ; Supanus, K. ; Phayomhom, A. LIGHTNING HAZARD MITIGATION IN UGANDA........................................................................................................................... 1770 Mary, Ahurra Kulyaka ; Gomes, Ashen ; Gomes, Chandima ; Ahmad, Wan Fatinhamamah Wan IMPROVED METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF SHIELDING EFFECT OF OBJECTS NEAR MEDIUM VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINES....................................................................................................................................................... 1780 Kiss, Istvan ; Nemeth, Balint ; Horvath, Tibor ; Berta, Istvan FEATURES OF ESTIMATING OF LIGHTNING PROTECTION AND GROUNDING ELECTRODE BASED ON THE FAMILY OF LINES OF FORCE IN ELECTRIC FIELD ..................................................................................................... 1786 Potapenko, T.A. ; Shtifanov, A.I. ; Potapenko, A.N. MODELLING PROXIMITY EFFECTS IN TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODE FOR LIGHTNING STUDIES ....................... 1793 Kumar, Udaya ; V., Sreeram SCALED EXPERIMENT AND CALCULATION OF INDUCTION LIGHTNING OVERVOLTAGE ON DISTRIBUTION LINE................................................................................................................................................................................ 1799 Yu, ZhanQing ; Huang, Ying ; Zeng, Rong ; Wang, ZeZhong ; Liu, Yi ; Huang, Ying ; Bo, Tang THE NEED FOR STANDARDIZATION OF HUMAN TOLERABILITY LEVELS FOR LIGHTNING CURRENTS AND VOLTAGES ................................................................................................................................................................. 1804 Dias, Guilherme ; Gazzana, Daniel S. ; Bretas, Arturo S. ; Tello, Marcos TRIGGERED UPWARD FLASHES: ANALYSIS OF POSITIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND WAVEFORMS ................................. 1809 Schumann, Carina ; Saba, Marcelo M.F. ; de Paiva, Amanda R. ; Jaques, Robson ; da Silva Ferro, Marco Antonio ; Warner, Tom A. ; Helsdon, John H. EVALUATION OF BRASILDAT RELATIVE DETECTION EFFICIENCY BASED ON LIS OBSERVATIONS AND A NUMERIC MODEL....................................................................................................................................................................... 1814 Naccarato, Kleber P. ; Pinto, Osmar ; Sloop, Christopher D. ; Heckman, Stan ; Liu, Charlie GROUND LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS AND FLASHOVER LOCATIONS OF OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1820 Li, Han ; Zhou, Wenjun ; Qi, Yulong ; Deng, Yurong ; Zhu, Shiyang ; Huang, Zhidu DETECTION OF UPWARD LIGHTNING BY LIGHTNING LOCATION SYSTEMS ................................................................... 1824 de Paiva, Amanda R. ; Saba, Marcelo M.F. ; Naccarato, Kleber P. ; Schumann, Carina ; Jaques, Robson ; da Silva Ferro, Marco Antonio ; Warner, Tom A. ON THE OCCURRENCE OF RECOIL LEADERS IN NEGATIVE UPWARD FLASHES IN BRAZIL....................................... 1827 Saba, Marcelo M.F. ; Schumann, Carina ; de Paiva, Amanda R. ; Jaques, Robson ; Fraulob, Halph M. ; da Silva Ferro, Marco Antonio ; Warner, Tom A. CHARACTERIZATION OF NEGATIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING IN FLORIDA: REVISITED ........................... 1830 Zhu, Y. ; Rakov, V.A. ; Mallick, S. ; Tran, M.D. CALCULATION OF THE ELECTRIC FIELD ON A NEEDLE UNDER THUNDERSTORM-LIKE CONDITIONS .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1835 Montero, Oscar ; Araque, Javier ; Roman, Francisco A SIMULATION APPROACH IN ELECTROSTATIC CHARGING OF ROTOR BLADES AND ITS EFFECTS ON TRANSFERRED OVERVOLTAGES IN WIND PARKS ............................................................................................................... 1838 Hernandez, Y.Mendez ; Tsovilis, T. ; Asimakopoulou, F. ; Politis, Z. ; Barton, W. ; Lozano, M.Martinez CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGTHNING ACTIVITY IN COLOMBIA AND THE INFLUENCE OF TOPOGRAPHY ................... 1850 Aranguren, Daniel ; Lopez, Jesus ; Inampues, Juan ; Torres, Horacio ; Betz, Hans D. FAST ANTENNAS: A PLEA FOR CONTINUED USE.......................................................................................................................... 1856 Heckman, Stan INFLUENCE OF THE WALL MATERIAL OF THE LIGHTNING PROTECTED OBJECT SIZE INDUCED SURGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1859 Mikes, Jan ; Efmertova, Marcela ; Kutac, Jiri ; Martinek, Zbynek EARTH NETWORKS LIGHTNING OVERVIEW................................................................................................................................. 1866 Heckman, Stan ; Liu, Charlie ; Sloop, Chris LIGHTNING RISK ASSESSMENT AND THUNDERSTORM WARNING SYSTEMS ................................................................... 1870 Tovar, Claudia ; Aranguren, Daniel ; Lopez, Jesus ; Inampues, Juan ; Torres, Horacio ESTIMATION OF THE SHIELDING PERFORMANCE OF TRANSMISSION LINES: COMPARISON OF DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC METHODS....................................................................................................................... 1875 Lobato, Andre T. ; Schroeder, Marco A.O. ; Sales, Warlley S. ; Nascimento, Luiz C. ; Assis, Sandro C. ANALYSIS OF BACKUP PROTECTION OF FUSE AND CIRCUIT BREAKER ............................................................................ 1878 Xin, Li ; Xiong, Victor ; Li, Bruce INDIRECT LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE OF A REAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK WITH FOCUS ON TRANSFORMER PROTECTION............................................................................................................................................................. 1884 Borghetti, Alberto ; Napolitano, Fabio ; Nucci, Carlo Alberto ; Tossani, Fabio ; Dos Santos, Gilnei J.G. ; Fagundes, Donorvan R. ; Lopes, Gustavo P. ; Martinez, Manuel L.B. SELECTION OF MV/LV TRANSFORMERS TO BE PROTECTED BY SURGE ARRESTERS AGAINST INDIRECT LIGHTNING OVERVOLTAGES ........................................................................................................................................ 1891 Borghetti, Alberto ; Napolitano, Fabio ; Nucci, Carlo Alberto ; Tossani, Fabio ; Dos Santos, Gilnei J.G. ; Fagundes, Donorvan R. ; Lopes, Gustavo P. ; Martinez, Manuel L.B. MECHANISM OF INITIATIVE ARC-EXTINGUISHING LIGHTNING PROTECTION GAP OF SUPPRESSING ARC-ESTABLISHING TYPE BASED ON LIGHTNING IMPULSE TRIGGERING.......................................... 1897 Wang, Jufeng ; Liu, Jinlian LIGHTNING OCCURRENCE DENSITY IN GUINEA ......................................................................................................................... 1902 Bah, Mamadou Lamine ; Tounkara, Mamadou ; Gomes, Chandima ; Davidov, Ari ; Anderson, Jim LIGHTNING; GODS AND SCIENCES.................................................................................................................................................... 1909 Gomes, Chandima ; Gomes, Ashen ANALYSIS OF LIGHTNING OCCURENCE IN ZAMBIA .................................................................................................................. 1919 Nyambe, Silumelume H ; Gomes, Chandima ; Lubasi, Foster Chileshe ; Gomes, Ashen DATA ANALYSIS OF LIGHTNING FATALITIES OCCURRENCE BY NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS WITH APPLICATIONS ON PUBLIC HEALTH: THE CASE OF VENEZUELA......................................................... 1926 Silva Artigas, Soiram Ernesto ; Mendoza, Yosmel Ugas ON THE STOCHASTIC MODELING OF LIGHTNING OCCURRENCES BY NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS, ESTIMATION AND SIMULATION PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND APPLICATIONS: PARIS-VENEZUELA COMPARISON.................................................................................................................... 1932 Silva Artigas, Soiram Ernesto A LOCATING METHOD OF LIGHTNING STROKE POINT ON TRANSMISSION LINES BASED ON LIGHTNING RECORDING SYSTEM..................................................................................................................................................... 1941 Wang, Yunchao ; Yu, ZhanQing ; He, Jinliang ; Chen, Shuiming ; Wang, Zezong ; Li, Yu ; Peng, Long ; Zhao, Yuan ; Deng, Chun LIGHTNING DENSITY BASED ON LIGHTNING LOCATION SYSTEMS .................................................................................... 1947 Bouquegneau, Christian LIGHTNING STRIKE PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL JOINTS........................................................................... 1952 Evans, Simon ; Revel, Ivan ; Cole, Matthew ; Mills, Richard UPWARD LEADER INCEPTION CRITERION CONSIDERING GAS KINETIC PROCESS AND HEAT CONDUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 1960 Zhou, Xuan ; Zeng, Rong ; Li, Zhizhao ; Zhuang, Chijie COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF REGIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN A WIDE FREQUENCIE RANGE.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1964 Shlyugaev, Yu.V. ; Mareev, E.A. ; Kuterin, F.A. ; Bulatov, A.A. RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF A NEW JET STREAM ARC EXTINGUISHING GAP LIGHTNING PROTECTION DEVICE............................................................................................................................................................................. 1967 Wang, Jufeng ; Guo, Wei ; Li, Guodong ; Wu, Dong ; Liang, Xue ; Liu, Jinlian AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH OF THE TRANSIENT EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING CURRENTS ON THE OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION SYSTEM IN MW-CLASS PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANTS........................................................... 1972 Hernandez, Y.Mendez ; Ioannidis, D. ; Ferlas, G. ; Tsovilis, E.Giannelaki.T. ; Politis, Z. ; Samaras, K. INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT IMPULSE WAVEFORMS ON COORDINATION OF TWO CASCADED SPDS ..................... 1978 He, Ziyu ; Du, Y. DISCUSSION ON TOWER SHUNT COEFFICIENT OF UHV DC TRANSMISSION LINE UNDER LIGHTNING STROKE............................................................................................................................................................................... 1983 Chen, S ; Hu, J ; Zhang, B ; Yin, Y ; Hua, M SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT OF A COMPOSITE INSULATOR WITH LIGHTNING PROTECTION AND ICING FLASHOVER PREVENTION ............................................................................................................................................ 1987 Lu, Jiazheng ; Zhao, Chun ; Jiang, Zhenglong ; Xie, Pengkang ; Hu, Jianlin CHARACTERISTICS OF LIGHTNING ACTIVITIES IN POTALA PALACE REGION OF TIBET........................................... 1992 Chi, Gongbo ; Zhang, Yang ; Zheng, Dong ; Lu, Weitao ; Zhang, Yijun EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF PREVENTIVE LIGHTNING PROTECTION METHODS ..................................................... 1995 Gulyas, Attila ; Kiss, Istvan ; Poelman, Dieter ; Berta, Istvan LIGHTNING RESPONSE OF GROUNDING GRID BURIED IN MULTILAYERED EARTH MODEL BASED ON QUASI-STATIC COMPLEX IMAGE METHOD IN TIME DOMAIN ........................................................................................ 2001 Li, Zhong-Xin ; Shi, Wei-Dong ; Yin, Yu TRANSIENT LIGHTNING RESPONSE OF GROUNDING GRID BURIED IN MULTILAYERED EARTH WITH THE HYBRID METHOD WITH “T” TYPICAL ELEMENTARY ELEMENT .................................................................... 2006 Li, Zhong-Xin ; Shi, Wei-Dong ; Yin, Yu OPTICAL EMISSION AND PEAK ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER RADIATED BY RETURN STROKES IN ROCKET-TRIGGERED LIGHTNING .................................................................................................................................................... 2011 Quick, Mason G. ; Krider, E.Philip TECHNIQUE FOR SAFETY DESIGN OF GROUNDING GRID IN MEA'S POWER DISTRIBUTION SUBSTATION .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2016 Phayomhom, A. ; Lantharthong, T. ; Rugthaicharoencheep, N. IMPROVE THE ELECTROGEOMETRIC MODEL BY THE ANALYSIS RESULTS OF LEADER PROPAGATION MODEL FOR TRANSMISSION LINES ................................................................................................................... 2020 Zhuang, Chijie ; Zeng, Rong ; Li, Qian ; Liu, Hanbo ; Yu, ZhanQing ; He, Jinliang LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF OVERHEAD SUBTRANSMISSION LINES IN POWER SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2024 Phayomhom, A. ; Kulwongwit, W. ; Rugthaicharoencheep, N. CN TOWER LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS BASED ON CURRENT-RECORDED FLASHES........................................... 2028 Hussein, A.M. ; Kazazi, S. ; Anwar, M. ; Yusouf, M. ; Liatos, P. RECENT ADVANCES IN HIGH ENERGY ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS .......................................................................................... 2035 Dwyer, Joseph R. Author Index