ATMO/ECE 489/589 - Atmospheric Electricity
Selected References

There is no textbook requirement for this class.  Rather detailed online lecture notes will be provided after each class.  There may be links to additional reference material embedded in the lecture notes.

+   "The Art and Science of Lightning Protection," Martin A. Uman, Cambridge University Press, 2008. 
(paperback version 2010)

+    "Lightning: Physics and Effects," Vladimir Rakov and Martin A. Uman, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

(paperback version with corrections 2006)

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

x    "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/)

*    "Lightning and Its Spectrum," Leon E. Salanave, Univ. Az. Press, 1980.

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


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

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

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

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



*    should be available for short term checkout in the Atmospheric Sciences Dept. library (Room 546)
x    unavailable  
+    available for short term loan from instructor