Lightning Phenomenon: Need for Awareness Detection and Protection from Damage Caused by Lightning

by Chandima Gomes, Ravindra Arora

ISBN: 9789351301790
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 6495.00
Biblio : xx+168p., col. plts., figs., tabls., ind., 25 cm

About The Book

Lightning has always greatly fascinated awed and frightened the humankind with its spectacular intense tree like flashes. The Phenomenon of lightning is caused by the build up of electrostatic charge in clouds the effect of which has been a challenge for the mankind to explain. Though lightning and thunderstorms are vital in some ways as they generate nitrogen oxygen and free radicals essential for living beings on the contrary these are also capable of causing wild land fires human and animal d

Table of Contents

Contents Part I: Lightning Activity Mapping; Chapter 1: Study of Lightning Activity Over Indian Sub-continent by Manish Ranaikar, Amit Kesarkar, Rudra Pratap and R D Vashistha; Chapter 2: Seasonal and Annual Lightning Thunderstorms Day Maps for Saudi Arbia by M H Shwehdi; Part II: Awareness and Damage Caused by Lightning; Chapter 3: Lightning Safety Awareness Programme Especially in South Asia to Minimize Loss of Human Lives and Properties by Munir Ahmed and Chandima Gomes; Chapter 4: Lightnings