ATMO/ECE 489/589 - Atmospheric Electricity
Selected References
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Recent Books
"Lightning: Physics and Effects," Vladimir Rakov and Martin A. Uman, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
(paperback version with corrections 2006)

"The Lightning Flash," Ed. by Vernon Cooray, IEE Press (London), 2003.

"Lightning Physics and Lightning Protection," Eduard M. Bazelyn and Yuri P. Raizer, IOP Publishing, Ltd., 2000.

"The Electrical Nature of Storms," Donald R. MacGorman and W. David Rust, Oxford University Press, 1998.

"The Lightning Discharge," Martin A. Uman, Academic Press, 1987. 
Reissued by Dover Publications Inc., 2001.

"The Earth's Electrical Environment," National Academy of Sciences, 1986.
(available online at www.nap.edu/books/0309036801/html/)


Older Books
"The Flight of Thunderbolts," Sir Basil Schonland, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1964.

"Atmospheric Electricity," J. A. Chalmers, 2nd ed., Pergamon Press, London, 1967.

"Lightning," Martin A. Uman, McGraw Hill Book Co., New York, 1969. 
Reissued by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1984.

"Atmospheric Electricity," H. Israel
Vol. I, Fundamentals Conducitivity, Ions
Vol. II, Fields, Charges Currents
Translated from German by the National Science Foundation, 1971 and 1973.

"Lightning Protection," R. H. Golde, Edward Arnold, London, 1973.
Reprinted by CRC Press, 1974.

"Lightning," Vol. 1: Physics of Lightning, Vol. 2: Lightning Protection, ed. by R. H. Golde, Academic Press, 1977.