of cultural causes for fire and smoke, as well as an assessment based upon bushfire incidents in south-eastern and south-western Australia, suggests there is a likelihood that at least some, if not the majority, of the ignitions attributed to Aboriginal agency were caused by lightning strikes....
Lightning activity is frequent in Southeast China, with lightning strikes of varying intensities reported annually, including isolated instances of severe or even fatal lightning strikes. Therefore, it is essential to analyze the characteristics of lightning activities in this area based on long-term dat...
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Also, in 2012, it was reported that lightning strikes contributed to 3.9% of wildfires in Spain [29]. On 6 June 2017, a lightning-induced fire left hundreds of people homeless in the Western Cape, South Africa [30]. Adversely, lightning-induced fires are a menace to the ecosystem, ...
Lightning strikes heat the impacted material to over 3000 K16, consistent with the amorphous silica glass in the fulgurite core. The quartz melting isotherm of ~2000 K divides the vesicular rim from the massive core (Fig.2b); the latter forming from a highly viscous silica melt resulting...
A series of lightning strikes imaged by the Nightpod camera aboard the ISS above Rome in 2012. Credit: ESA/NASA/André Kuipers Effects: In general, lightning has three measurable effects on the surrounding environment. First, there is the direct effect of a lightning strike itself, in which ...
The fatality rate due to lightning strikes is significantly high in this region (Illiyas et al., 2014; Singh and Singh, 2015). Over the region, considerable work on the spatio-temporal variability of lightning activity is carried out by using the TRMM satellite onboard Lightning Imaging Sensor...
Every year Tasmania is hit by thousands of lightning strikes, which harmlessly hit wet ground. But a huge swathe of the state is now burning as a result of "dry lightning" strikes.
Every year Tasmania is hit by thousands of lightning strikes, which harmlessly hit wet ground. But a huge swathe of the state is now burning as a result of "dry lightning" strikes.
Fires can be ignited by people or by natural causes, which are almost exclusively lightning strikes. Discriminating between lightning and anthropogenic fires is paramount when estimating impacts of changing socioeconomic and climatological conditions on