Thunderstorm observations during the I.G.Y at Poona with local lightning flash counters

Abstract

Instruments which record automatically the number of lightning flashes occurring within a given area round the point of obser-vation are of considerable value to radio and electrical engineers and to meteorologists. Special radio receivers for recording lightning flashes based on their response to the radia-tion and electrostatic field changes have been designed during the last few years (Gane and Schonland 1948, Pierce 1956, Ito et al. 1955, Sullivan and Wells 1957).