Session 3 Global Lightning Casualties

Tuesday, 8 January 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Submitters:
Mary Ann Cooper, African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network; Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, ACLENet, River Forest, IL and Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO, Inc., NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT), Huntsville, AL
Chair:
Larry D. Carey, Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences, College Statiion, Texas

Lightning safety and injury prevention has been a concern of the AMS and NOAA for many years (www.lightning-safety.noaa.gov).  Now that deaths in the United States have reached an all-time low (only 16 in 2017), it is time to turn our efforts to the international front.  Collecting and presenting baseline data, improving reporting, testing of methods in other cultures and languages, and investigation disparities or peculiarities that need to be addressed in safety efforts are only some of the topics that could be addressed in this session.

Papers:
10:30 AM
3.1
Myths and Beliefs on Lightning among Kenyan Communities
Ratemo Waya Michieka, Univ. of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
10:45 AM
3.2
African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network (ACLENet): 2019 Progress Report
Mary Ann Cooper, African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network; Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, River Forest, IL; and R. Tushemereirwe and R. L. Holle
11:00 AM
3.4
Public Education to Reduce Lightning Injuries and Deaths in Bangladesh
Munir Ahmed, TARA, Dhaka, Bangladesh; and A. K. M. S. Islam, M. A. Cooper, C. Gomes, and R. L. Holle
11:15 AM
3.5
A New Approximation to Assess Risk By Lightning in Colombia
Audrey Soley Cruz Bernal, Keraunos S.A.S, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia; and D. Aranguren, H. Torres, and H. Rojas

11:30 AM
3.6
U.S. Lightning Deaths since the Year 1000
Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ
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