Lightning Website

The website Blitzortung.org provides information about the location of lightning in the British Isles, Europe and North America.

The network determines the location of electromagnetic discharges in the atmosphere (lightning discharges) based on the time of arrival (TOA) method.

It consists of several lightning receiver sites and one central processing server. The sites transmit their data in short time intervals over the Internet to the server.

Every data sentence contains the precise time of arrival of the received lightning discharge impulse ("sferic") and the exact geographic position of the site. With this information from all sites the exact positions of the discharges are computed.

The aim of the project is to establish a low budget lightning location network with a high number of sites.

Blitzortung (Lightning Detection)
http://www.blitzortung.org/