With contributions from today's leading lightning engineers and researchers, this updated 2nd edition of Vernon Cooray's classic text, The Lightning Flash provides the reader with an essential introduction to lightning and its impact on electrical and electronic equipment. This is the updated and much-expanded book of the core title in our trio of lightning books (The Lightning Flash, Lightning Electromagnetics and Lightning Protection) by this highly-regarded author. It provides the reader with a thorough background into almost every aspect of lightning and its impact on electrical and electronic equipment. New topics in this edition include: discussions of high-speed video recordings of lightning, rocket-and-wire triggered lightning experiments, tower initiated lightning discharges and upper atmospheric electrical discharges. The Lightning Flash, 2nd Edition is a sound introduction for researchers and advanced students working in the field and will be of value for anyone designing, installing or commissioning equipment which needs to be secured against lightning strikes.

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