News

2024

2024-09-03

Mr. Yang (D3) had an oral presentation at ICLP2024 held in Dresden, Germany.

2023

2023-12-11

Dr. Wu had an oral presentation at AGU Fall Meeting 2023 held in San Francisco.

2023-07-19

The paper "High-Accuracy Classification of Radiation Waveforms of Lightning Return Strokes"by Wu et al. is published by JGR Atmospheres. link

2023-06-14

Mr. Yang (D3) had an oral presentation at APL2023 held in Langkawi, Malaysia, and won the Best Paper Award. Congratulations!

2023-04-03

The paper "A 3D Interferometer-Type Lightning Mapping Array for Observation of Winter Lightning in Japan" by Yang et al. is published by Remote Sensing. link

2022

2022-11-09

The paper "On the Intensity of First Return Strokes in Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Winter"by Wu et al. is published by JGR Atmospheres. link

2022-07-03

The paper "3D Mapping of Winter Lightning in Japan with an Array of Discone Antennas" by Wang et al. is published by IEEJ。 link

2022-06-09

The paper "Complicated aspects of a CG lightning flash observed in winter storm in Japan"by Huang et al. is published by Journal of Atmospheric Electricity. link

2021

2021-12-12: The paper "Recoil leader and associated discharge features observed during the progression of a multi-branched upward lightning flash"by Huang et al. is published by Geophysical Research Letters. link
2021-10-25: The paper "The Strongest Negative Lightning Strokes in Winter Thunderstorms in Japan"by Wu et al. is published by Geophysical Research Letters. link
2021-07-21: The paper "Compact Lightning Strokes in Winter Thunderstorms" by Wu et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2021-04-18: The paper "Initial Results of Long-term Continuous Observation of Lightning Discharges by FALMA in Chinese Inland Plateau Region"by Gao et al. is published by Atmosphere. link
2021-04-08: The paper "Characteristics of Electric Currents in Upward Lightning Flashes From a Windmill and its Lightning Protection Tower in Japan, 2005–2016" by Wang et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2021-01-10: The paper "Winter Positive Cloud‐to‐Ground Lightning Flashes Observed by LMA in Japan" by Wang et al. is published by IEEJ。 link
2020-12-14: The paper "Fine progression features of return stroke luminosity at the bottom of rocket-triggered lightning channels"by Huang et al. is published by Journal of Atmospheric Electricity. link
2020-09-30: The paper "Multiple‐stroke positive cloud‐to‐ground lightning observed by the FALMA in winter thunderstorms in Japan" by Wu et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2020-08-13: The paper "A Comparison on the E‐change Pulses Occurring in the Bi‐level Polarity‐opposite Charge Regions of the Intra‐Cloud Lightning Flashes"by Shi et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2020-08-07: The paper "Upward negative leaders in positive upward lightning in winter: propagation velocities, electric field change waveforms, and triggering mechanism"by Wu et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2020-06-15: The paper "A negative cloud-to-ground lightning flash initiating at a high altitude and starting without classic preliminary breakdown pulses"by Wu et al. is published by Journal of Atmospheric Electricity. link
2020-05-12: The paper "A comparative study on the discontinuous luminosities of two upward lightning leaders with opposite polarities" by Wang et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link

2019

2019-12-09: Dr. Wu had an invited talk at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019 in San Francisco.
2019-11-06: The paper "Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Preliminary Breakdown Pulses in Intracloud Lightning Flashes" by Shi et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2019-10-16: The paper "The paper "Characterization of Multitermination CG Flashes Using a 3D Lightning Mapping System (FALMA)"by Gao et al. is published by Atmosphere. link; Dr.Wu had a presentation at the URSI-JRSM 2019 in Tokyo Japan.
2019-08-29: The paper "Velocities of positive leaders in intracloud and negative cloud‐to‐ground lightning flashes"by Wu et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2019-07-29: The paper "Correlation Between the First Return Stroke of Negative CG Lightning and Its Preceding Discharge Processes" by Shi et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2019-07-07~12: Dr. Wang had a presentation titled ”What have we learned about the lightning discharge in the last 100 years” at the 27th International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly, Montreal, Canada.
2019-06-17: The paper "Charge regions indicated by LMA lightning flashes in Hokuriku's winter thunderstorms" by Zheng et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2019-06-17: The paper "Intracloud lightning flashes initiated at high altitudes and dominated by downward positive leaders" by Wu et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2019-06-12~14: Dr. Wang, Mr. Shi, Mr. Huang and Mr. Wang had presentations at the 11th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning in Hongkong, China.

2018

2018-11-06: The paper "Formation Features of Steps and Branches of an Upward Negative Leader" by Huang et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2018-08-27: The paper "Leader Polarity‐Reversal Feature and Charge Structure of Three Upward Bipolar Lightning Flashes" by Shi et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2018-08-01: The paper "Locating preliminary breakdown pulses in positive cloud‐to‐ground lightning" by Wu et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2018-06-17~22: Dr. Wu, Mr. Shi (D1), Mr. Yamada (M2), Mr. Huang (M2), Mr. Kurachi (M2) and Mr. Sawada (M2) had presentations at the 16th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE2018) held in Nara, Japan.
2018-05-01: The paper "Charge Structure of Winter Thunderstorm in Japan: a Review and an Update" by Wang et al. is published by IEEJ Transactions on Power and Energy. link
2018-03-27: The paper "Lightning Mapping with an Array of Fast Antennas" by Wu et al. is published by Geophysical Research Letters. link

2017

2018-03-27: The paper "Lightning Mapping with an Array of Fast Antennas" by Wu et al. is published by Geophysical Research Letters. link
2017-09-15: Mr. Huang(M1) had a presentation at ICOLSE 2017 (International Conference on Lightning & Static Electricity) held in Nagoya, Japan.
2017-05-25: The paper "Corona discharges from a windmill and its lightning protection tower in winter thunderstorms" by Wu et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link
2017-05-16~19: Dr. Wang, Dr. Wu and Mr. Tsukamoto had presentations at the 10th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning in Krabi, Thailand.
2017-04-13: Dr. Wang had a presentation at the 4th International Symposium on Winter Lightning in Joetsu, Niigata-ken, Japan.
2017-04-13: The paper "Corona discharges from a windmill and its lightning protection tower in winter thunderstorms" by Wu et al. is accepted by Journal of Geophysical Research.
2017-01-15: The paper "Luminosity progression in dart-stepped leader step formation" by Wang et al. is published by Journal of Geophysical Research. link

2016

2016-12-12: Dr. Wang has a presentation at AGU Fall Meeting held in San Francisco, USA.
2016-12-01: The paper "Luminosity progression in dart-stepped leader step formation" by Wang et al. is accepted by Journal of Geophysical Research.
2016-09-25~30: Dr. Wang had presentations at ICLP2016 held in Estoril, Portugal.
2016-09-12~13: Mizuno, Tsukamoto, Okumura, Hatano and Takimori (M1) had presentations at the Tokai-Section Joint Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Information, and Related Engineering.
2016-09-01: The homepage of our lab is created.