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About NLSI |
| 1.1 |
Mission Statement |
| 1.2 |
Board of Advisors |
| 1.3 |
The Zeus Club |
| 1.4 |
Awards for Contributions to Lightning Safety
1.4.1 2000 Awards
1.4.2 2001 Awards
1.4.3 2002 Awards
1.4.4 2003 Awards
1.4.5 2004 Awards
1.4.6 2005 Awards |
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| 2 |
NLSI Business Services |
| 2.1 |
Consulting Services |
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2.1.1 NLSI conducts a broad Range
of Consulting Services |
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2.1.2 Need a Quick Site
Evaluation? |
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2.1.3 Want to establish a Lightning
Safety Committee? |
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2.1.4 Examples of NLSI Consulting
for Large-Scale Facilities |
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2.1.5 Procedure for
a Systematic Evaluation of Lightning Hazard Mitigation to Critical
Facilities |
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2.1.6 A Typical Case
Study |
| 2.2 |
Classes, Seminars, and Workshops |
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2.2.1 Lightning Safety Tutorial
(1- to 3-hour) |
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2.2.2 Inspection, Maintenance
& Testing of NFPA-780 Lightning Protection System (1-day) |
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2.2.3 Graduate Study Program Workshop on
Lightning
Safety for Critical High-Value Facilities/Lightning Protection for Engineers (2-day) |
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2.2.3.1 Course
Outline for GSP Workshop |
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2.2.3.2 Online
Registration for GSP Workshop |
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2.2.4 Understanding the 2004
Version of NFPA-780 (1-day) |
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2.2.5 Lightning Safety for Dispatch
Communications Centers (3-day) |
| 2.3 |
Videos, Standards, and Books |
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2.3.1 Videos and DVDs on Lightning
Issues |
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2.3.2 International Codes and
Standards on Lightning Safety |
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2.3.3 NLSI book on Lightning
Protection for Engineers |
| 2.4 |
Observation Site |
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High Altitude Lightning Observation
Site (HALOS) |
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| 3 |
Lightning Incidents |
| 3.1 |
Lightning
Fatalities, Injuries, And Damage Reports In The United States |
| 3.2 |
Results of Investigations
into Annual USA Lightning Costs and Losses |
| 3.3 |
Lightning's Social and Economic Costs |
| 3.4 |
35 Years of Lightning
Deaths and Injuries |
| 3.5 |
Selected Incidents from the "It
Can't Happen to Me" Library |
| 3.6 |
Aviation Losses from Lightning
Strikes |
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3.6.1 Plane
Being Affected by a Lightning Flash (photo) |
| 3.7 |
Daily Lightning
Incidents Around the World |
| 3.8 |
Manifestations Of Lightning
Deaths And Injuries |
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| 4 |
Personal Lightning Safety |
| 4.1 |
Decision Tree for Personal
Lightning Safety |
| 4.2 |
Multi-Agency Recommendations
for Lightning Safety |
| 4.3 |
Information for Lightning Strike
Victims |
| 4.4 |
Lightning Safety Tips |
| 4.5 |
Lightning Safety in NLSI's Home
Town (Louisville, CO) |
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4.5.1 Louisville
Ballfields |
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4.5.2 Louisville
Parks |
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4.5.3 Louisville
Pools |
| 4.6 |
Lightning Safety for Organized Outdoor
Athletic Events |
| 4.7 |
Indoor/Outdoor Swimming Pool
Safety |
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4.7.1 Lightning and Aquatics
Safety: A Cautionary Perspective for Indoor Pools |
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4.7.2 YMCA Guidelines for Indoor
Pools Closing Due to Lightning (PDF file) |
| 4.8 |
Lightning Safety for Campers and
Hikers |
| 4.9 |
Boating Lightning Safety |
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4.9.1 Boating
Lightning Protection |
| 4.10 |
Lightning Safety for Outdoor
Workers |
| 4.11 |
Lightning: The Underated Weather
Hazard |
| 4.12 |
NCAA Sports
Medicine Handbook Lightning Safety Guideline (PDF file) |
| 4.13 |
A Lightning Safety Mandate
For The Game Of Golf |
| 4.14 |
US Golf Association Lightning Warning
Information |
| 4.15 |
National
Athletic Trainers' Association Position Statement: Lightning Safety
for Athletics and Recreation (PDF file) |
| 4.16 |
Lightning Safety in Outdoor
Recreation |
| 4.17 |
Lightning
Safety Recommendations from American Meteorological Society
(PDF file) |
| 4.18 |
¿Está preparado
para una tormenta eléctrica? |
| 4.19 |
Lightning
Protection Hazard Alert (PDF file), Protección
contra los rayos |
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Of More General Interest: |
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1. Fun With Lightning |
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2. Vehicles and Lightning |
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3. When
Lightning Strikes People |
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4. Colorado
Lightning Resource Center |
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5. Lightning Protection:
New Myths & Old Realities |
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6. Make
Very Tiny Lightning |
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7. Lightning Strike Probabilities |
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| 5 |
Structural Lightning Safety |
| 5.1 |
Background Issues |
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5.1.1 The Physics of Structural Lightning
Safety |
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5.1.2 Atmospheric Charge Redistribution |
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5.1.3 Determining the Probability
of Lightning Striking a Facility |
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5.1.4 Lightning Risk
and Hazard Analysis Measurement |
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5.1.5 Zone or Fortress Protection
Concept |
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5.1.6 Effects of Lightning on Assets,
Facilities and Structures |
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5.1.7 21st Century Lightning Safety For Environments Containing Sensitive Electronics, Explosives, and Volatile Substances |
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5.1.8 New International Standard for Lightning Protection, IEC 62305 |
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5.1.9 The Basis of Conventional
Lightning Protection Technology (PDF file) |
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5.1.10 Lightning Safety
Decision Tree for Facilities |
| 5.2 |
Surge Protection Issues |
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5.2.1 Ode to the Missing Surge Protector |
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5.2.2 Overvoltages: Cause, Effect
& Mitigation |
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5.2.3 Guidelines for Providing Surge
Protection at Commercial, Institutional
and Industrial Facilities |
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5.2.4 Advanced Control
of Transients |
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5.2.5 NLSI Recommendations
for Surge Protection Devices |
| 5.3 |
Grounding and Bonding Issues |
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5.3.1 Recommended Grounding Guidelines |
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5.3.2 Definition of
Terms Used in Grounding |
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5.3.3 An Examination of Lightning-Strike-Grounding
Physics (PDF file) |
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5.3.4 Relative Advantages
and Disadvantages of the Principal Types of Earth Electrodes |
| 5.4 |
Air Terminals |
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5.4.1 Fundamentals of Lightning Protection |
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5.4.2 Lightning Rods
- Recent Investigations |
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5.4.3 Scientists Oppose
Early Streamer Air Terminals |
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5.4.4 Charge Transfer System
is Wishful Thinking, Not Science |
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5.4.5 Applicability of Lightning
Elimination Devices to Substations and Power Lines (Word file) |
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5.4.6 ESE Air Terminals Ruling
by US Federal District Court (PDF file) |
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5.4.7 There Is No Magic To Lightning
Protection:
Charge Transfer Systems
Do Not Prevent Lightning Strikes (PDF file) |
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5.4.8 A Critical Review of Nonconventional
Approaches to Lightning Protection (PDF file) |
| 5.5 |
Site-Specific Issues |
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5.5.1 Lightning Hazard Reduction at
Wind Farms |
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5.5.2 GIS-Based Study of Lightning
Damages |
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5.5.3 Overview of Lightning
Detection Equipment |
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5.5.4 Should Lightning Rods
be Installed? |
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5.5.5 Small Shelters and Safety
from Lightning |
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5.5.6 Lightning
Safety for Dispatch Communications Centers |
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| 6 |
Reference Information |
| 6.1 |
A Review of Dynamic Changes
in USA Lightning Codes and Standards |
| 6.2 |
Lightning Safety Discussion Group |
| 6.3 |
Mastery, Mystery and Myths about
Lightning |
| 6.4 |
A Celebration of Benjamin Franklin:
The Year 1706 and Other Events of
that Era |
| 6.5 |
Weather Factoids |
| 6.6 |
Wisdom from Benjamin
Franklin |
| 6.7 |
Upward Streamers/Downward
Leaders (photo) |
| 6.8 |
Four Different Types
of Lightning (photo ) |
| 6.9 |
Information for the Media |
| 6.10 |
Little Known Lightning
Information |
| 6.11 |
Lightning Terms Glossary |
| 6.12 |
A Lightning Safety Quiz (EXE
file) |
| 6.13 |
Atmospheric
Electricity |
| 6.15 |
USA
Today Thunderstorm Info |
| 6.16 |
See Lightning
in Action (MPG file) |
| 6.17 |
World Lightning
Map |
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6.17.1 Australia |
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6.17.2 France |
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6.17.3 United
Kingdom |
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6.17.4 India |
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6.17.5 Japan |
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6.17.6 United
States (thunderstorm days/year) |
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6.17.7 United
States (flash density/year) |
| 6.18 |
The Thunder Mechanism |
| 6.19 |
Weather Satellite/Radar
Images |
| 6.20 |
Matrix of LPS
Subsystems |
