'Spherics for Monitoring Lightning

Brisbane

This site provides links(at left) to experimental wideband spectrum data received at several sites. Data of this type has been used for studying ionospheric phenomenae, such as sprites, and for monitoring lightning strikes on the ground. Work is underway to developed the data from the stations linked at left into a system for monitoring lightning strikes across Australasia.

Richard Dowden and associates at Low Frequency Electromagnetic Research, Ltd (LF*EM) produced this data with support from the New Zealand Marsden Fund. Further funding for this work was granted by the Australian Research Council in conjunction with the Department of Land Administration. Principals on the grant are Richard Dowden and Craig Roger of LF*EM and Jennifer Robinson of Murdoch University.

 

Budapest
Los Alamos

UNAM
Mexico City

MIT (Boston)
Seattle
Singapore
Taiwan
Tel Aviv

 

Data from the above sources are combined to produce

Map of Indicated Lightning Strikes in Australasia

Plot of Lightning Strikes
click image for live map updated every 10 minutes (requires manual refresh)

 

Page prepared and maintained by Jennifer Robinson,
Environmental Science, Murdoch University