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This work presents preliminary observations of the first lightning flash striking an instrumented lightning rod on the top of a common building in Brazil. The measurements include direct electric current in the lightning rod, high-speed recordings using different types of cameras and data from two lightning location systems (LLS) that operate in Brazil: RINDAT and BrasilDAT. The striking flash contained...
This work aimed to investigate which pulses (M-components and/or subsequent return stroke) of the upward lightning are detected by BrasilDAT lightning location network. It was found that, these pulses are similar to downward lightning pulses and therefore, they were well detected by the network. This report is based on a set of 29 upward lightning and 16 downward lightning whose strike points are...
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