Photograph of a flash from the high-speed camera taken in the context of the LiOn project.
Summer is the high season for thunderstorms and their resulting lightning and hail storms. TU Graz researchers Stephan Pack and Helmut Paulitsch get to the bottom of this summer phenomenon in their research work. No sooner has the temperature gone up, than the probability of thunderstorms increases. Lightning strikes and hail storms can have very extreme effects. From tourism to power suppliers, from business to aviation or farming - everyone is massively affected by lightning and hail. Every year brings damages caused by these weather phenomena to the tune of millions of euros. This year, the thunderstorm season began very early at the end of April and triggered off an intensive phase in the research of Stephan Pack at the Institute of High-Voltage Engineering and System Management , whose field of interest is hail suppression.
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