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  1. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  2. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  3. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  4. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  5. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  6. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  7. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  8. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  9. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  10. Inside the World of Sprite Chasing

    Article • Weatherwise, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  11. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  12. Ball Lightning: Tracking the Sasquatch of Meteorology

    Article • Weatherwise, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  13. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  14. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  15. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  16. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  17. H2O: How Water Shapes Our Planet and Our Future

    Article • Weatherwise, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  18. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  19. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  20. Photo of the Months

    Article • Weatherwise, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  21. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  22. Comparison Between High‐Speed Video Observation of Sprites and Broadband Sferic Measurements

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  23. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  24. How To Make a Cloud

    Article • Weatherwise, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  25. Photo of the Month

    Article • Weatherwise, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  26. New WMO Certified Megaflash Lightning Extremes for Flash Distance (709 km) and Duration (16.73 seconds) recorded from Space

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons, Rachel Albrecht

  27. How Long Can a Lightning Discharge Get>

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, January 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Walter Lyons

  28. Cloud Forests of Costa Rica: Ecosystems in Peril

    Article • Weatherwise, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  29. Observations of Red Sprites Above Hurricane Matthew

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  30. Unraveling the Mysteries of Fog

    Article • Weatherwise, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  31. There's Something in the Air in China

    Article • Weatherwise, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  32. How the Tiger Elve Got Its Stripes

    Article • Weatherwise, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  33. Introducing Asperitas: The Newest Cloud in the Sky

    Article • Weatherwise, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  34. Photographing Weather in the Dark

    Article • Weatherwise, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  35. The Vedur of Iceland

    Article • Weatherwise, December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  36. Observations of two sprite-producing storms in Colorado

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  37. Lightning: Does it Go Down or Up?

    Article • Weatherwise, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  38. Numerical simulation of an elve modulated by a gravity wave

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  39. Large charge moment change lightning on 31 May to 1 June 2013, including the El Reno tornadic storm

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  40. Structured elves: Modulation by convectively generated gravity waves

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  41. Regional, Seasonal, and Diurnal Variations of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning with Large Impulse Charge Moment Changes

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Walter Lyons

  42. The meteorology of negative cloud-to-ground lightning strokes with large charge moment changes: Implications for negative sprites

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  43. Coordinated observations of sprites and in-cloud lightning flash structure

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  44. Three years of lightning impulse charge moment change measurements in the United States

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  45. Radar and lightning analyses of gigantic jet-producing storms

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  46. Resolution of the sprite polarity paradox: The role of halos

    Article • Radio Science, March 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  47. Transient luminous events above two mesoscale convective systems: Charge moment change analysis

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  48. Lightning development associated with two negative gigantic jets

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  49. Transient luminous events above two mesoscale convective systems: Storm structure and evolution

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  50. Further evidences of deep convective vertical transport of water vapor through the tropopause

    Article • Atmospheric Research, November 2009, Elsevier

    Walter Lyons

  51. Quantification of the troposphere-to-ionosphere charge transfer in a gigantic jet

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Walter Lyons

  52. SUPERCELLS AND SPRITES

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August 2008, American Meteorological Society

    Walter Lyons

  53. Very low frequency sferic bursts, sprites, and their association with lightning activity

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  54. Analysis of the first gigantic jet recorded over continental North America

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  55. Testing sprite initiation theory using lightning measurements and modeled electromagnetic fields

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  56. On the association of early/fast very low frequency perturbations with sprites and rare examples of VLF backscatter

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  57. Submillisecond imaging of sprite development and structure

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Walter Lyons

  58. Upward Electrical Discharges From Thunderstorm Tops

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 2003, American Meteorological Society

    Walter Lyons

  59. Sprites, Elves, and Blue Jets

    Article • Weatherwise, September 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Walter Lyons

  60. Turbulent Diffusion and Pollutant Transport in Shoreline Environments

    Article • January 1982, Springer Science + Business Media

    Walter Lyons