ATMO/ECE 489/589 Selected References Spring 2007

Recent Books

Lightning: Physics and Effects, by Vladimir A. Rakov and Martin A. Uman, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 687 pp.


The Lightning Flash, Edited by Vernon Cooray, IEE Press (London), 2003, 574 pp.


Lightning Physics and Lightning Protection, by Eduard M. Bazelyn and Yuri P. Raizer,

IOP Publishing, Ltd, 2000, 325 pp.


The Electrical Nature of Storms, by Donald R. MacGorman and W. David Rust,

Oxford University Press, 1998, 422 pp.


The Lightning Discharge, by Martin A. Uman, Academic Press, 1987; Dover, 2001, 377 pp.


The Earths Electrical Environment, National Academy of Sciences, 1986

(Available on-line at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309036801/html/)


Older Books

The Flight of Thunderbolts, by Sir Basil Schonland, 2nd Edition, Clarendon Press,

Oxford, 1964, 182 pp.


Atmospheric Electricity by J. A. Chalmers

Pergamon Press, London, 1967 (2nd Edition).


Atmospheric Electricity by H. Israël

Vol. I: Fundamental, Conductivity, Ions

Vol. II: Fields, Charges, Currents

Translated from German by the National Science Foundation, 1971 and 1973.


Lightning by M.A. Uman

McGraw-Hill, New York, 1969; Reprinted by Dover Press, 1984, 298 pp.


Lightning Protection by R. H. Golde

Edward Arnold, London, 1973; reprinted by CRC Press, 1974.


Lightning ed. by R. H. Golde

Vol. 1: Physics of Lightning

Vol. 2: Lightning Protection

Academic Press, New York, 1977.


Earth Conduction Effects in Transmission Systems by E. D. Sunde

Dover, New York, 1968.