Flashes of Brilliance

Front Matter1.Foreword2.Preface3.List of Abbreviations and Definitions4.Acknowledgments
1Introduction1.1Myths of Native Americans in Arizona1.2Myths of general public1.3Arizona sports teams named "Lightning" and "Thunder"1.4Lightning terminology (flash, stroke, pulse)
2Arizona is the lightning photography capital of the U.S.2.1Geography, landscape, and meteorological factors2.2Examples from Arizona lightning photographers
3When, where, and how much lightning occurs in Arizona3.1Lightning occurrence by area in Arizona3.1.1Ten-year maps of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flashes and strokes for state3.1.2Cloud-to-ground frequency by county and city3.1.3Comparisons with other states and countries3.1.4Maps of total lightning flashes from satellite3.2Lightning distribution by time in Arizona3.2.1Seasonal, especially the monsoon season3.2.2Diurnal, mainly during monsoon season3.2.2Special regions of interest: Grand Canyon, Mogollon Rim, southeast mountains
4Human impacts, damages, and benefits from lightning in Arizona4.2Death and injury rates, comparisons with other states and countries4.3Examples of casualty scenarios such as hiking; safety rules4.4Forest fires, power outages and other economic losses from lightning in Arizona4.5The positive roles of lightning in NOx generation and the Global Electric Circuit
5How lightning detection networks were developed in Arizona6.1Brief history of the invention of real-time lightning detection at the University of Arizona that became the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN)6.2Interviews with Krider, Uman, Orville, Noggle, and Cummins based at the University of Arizona, and had essential roles in developing networks6.3Global spread of lightning detection networks over last 35 years6.4This technology has become the basis for global lightning detection technology and extremely wide applications
6Studies of lightning in Arizona6.1Studies by Salanave, Weidman, Krider, Uman, and Orville prior to NLDN6.2Grand Canyon

Ronald L. Holle is a meteorological consultant in Oro Valley, Arizona. He has worked extensively in meteorological education issues, particularly lightning safety and the demographics of lightning victims. He has authored or co-authored 80 formally reviewed journal papers, 19 books and book chapters, and 344 informal papers. He worked for NOAA research laboratories in Norman, Oklahoma; Boulder, Colorado; Coral Gables, Florida; and Silver Spring, Maryland, and is currently a consultant to Vaisala in Tucson. He has analyzed cloud-to-ground and in-cloud lightning data from ground-based detection networks as they relate to radar echoes, rainfall, flash floods, and winter weather, as well as compiling lightning climatologies. He participated in meteorological field programs in the USA, Caribbean, and West Africa. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in meteorology from Florida State University and took additional coursework at the University of Miami. Since 2002, Mr. Holle has been on scientific organizing committees for the International Lightning Detection Conferences and International Lightning Meteorology Conferences in Tucson, Helsinki, Orlando, Broomfield, San Diego, and Fort Lauderdale. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the African Centres for Lightning & Electromagnetics Network. He was awarded the STAC Outstanding Service Award of the American Meteorological Society in 2019, elected a fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2009, and received the Dr. T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the National Weather Association in 2008.

Daile Zhang is a postdoctoral associate at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)/ Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), University of Maryland. Daile received her PhD degree in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. In the summer of 2015, she worked as a Giant Leap intern at Vaisala Inc. in