{"id":423,"date":"2021-03-15T15:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:18:25","slug":"lightning-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/lightning-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lightning Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">W. W. Hager and W. Feng,<\/a>\u00a0Charge Rearrangement Deduced from Nearby Electric Field Measurements of an Intracloud Flash with K-Changes, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 118, 2013. doi: 10.1002\/jgrd.50782<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">R. G. Sonnenfeld and W. W. Hager,<\/a>\u00a0Electric Field Reversal in Sprite Electric Field Signature, Monthly Weather Review, 141 (2013), pp. 1731-1735. doi: 10.1175\/MWR-D-12-00220.1<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">W. W. Hager, R. G. Sonnenfeld, W. Feng, T. Kanmae, H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, M. G. McHarg, R. K. Haaland, S. A. Cummer, G. Lu, J. L. Lapierre,<\/a><br>\nCharge Rearrangement by Sprites over a North Texas Mesoscale Convective System, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117 (2012) doi: 10.1029\/2012JD018309, 2012<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/files\/052709.avi\">Video of sprite of 15 July 2010 at 05:27:09 UT (connected with sprite paper)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uflorida-my.sharepoint.com\/:u:\/g\/personal\/hager_ufl_edu\/Eexb8Qpje6dKpucZZ8IZ6_cBlMq9mHJRVZuAqf_pbA0bDw?e=ODLlcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W. W. Hager<\/a><br>\nStormAnalysis Version 2.1: A suite of MATLAB programs for analyzing and visualizing VHF pulse data and strike locations for the flashes in a thunderstorm, March 5, 2013.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/three-dimensional-charge-structure-of-a-mountain-thunderstorm\/\">W. W. Hager, B. C. Aslan, R. G. Sonnenfeld, Timothy D. Crum, John D. Battles, Michael T. Holborn, and Ruth Ron,<\/a><br>\nThree Dimensional Charge Structure of a Mountain Thunderstorm, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115 (2010), doi: 10.1029\/2009JD013241<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">W. W. Hager and B. C. Aslan,<\/a><br>\nThe Change in Electric Potential Due to Lightning,<br>\nMathematic Modeling and Numerical Analysis (ESAIM: M2AN), 42 (2008), 887-901.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">B. C. Aslan, W. W. Hager, and S. Moskow,<\/a><br>\nA Generalized Eigenproblem for the Laplacian Which Arises in Lightning,<br>\nJournal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 341 (2008), 1028-1041 (doi:10.1016\/j.jmaa.2007.11.007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/analysis-of-charge-transport-during-lightning-using-balloon-borne-electric-field-sensors-and-lma\/\">W. W. Hager, R. G. Sonnenfeld, B. C. Aslan, G. Lu, W. P. Winn, and W. L. Boeck,<\/a><br>\nAnalysis of Charge Transport During Lightning Using Balloon Borne Electric Field Sensors and LMA, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112 (2007), D18204, doi: 10.1029\/2006JD008187<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">W. W. Hager,<\/a><br>\nA discrete model for the lightning discharge,<br>\nJournal of Computational Physics, 144 (1998), 137-150.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">W. W. Hager and D. Wang,<\/a><br>\nAn analysis of errors in the location, current, and velocity of lightning,<br>\nJournal of Geophysical Research, 100 (1995), pp. 25,721-25,729.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">W. W. Hager, J. Nisbet, and J. Kasha,<\/a><br>\nThe evolution and discharge of electric fields within a thunderstorm,<br>\nJournal of Computational Physics, 82 (1989), 193&#8211;217.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">W. W. Hager, J. S. Nisbet, J. R. Kasha, and W.-C. Shann,<\/a><br>\nSimulations of Electric Fields within a Thunderstorm,<br>\nJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 46 (1989), pp. 3542-3558.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/hager\/content-removed\/\">W. W. 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