The lightning-triggering facility at Camp Blanding, Florida was established in 1993 by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Power Technologies, Inc. (PTI). In September 1994, operation of the facility was transferred to the University of Florida (UF). Over 50 researchers (excluding UF faculty, students, and staff) from 15 countries representing four continents have performed experiments at Camp Blanding concerned with various aspects of atmospheric electricity, lightning, and lightning protection. Since 1995, the Camp Blanding facility has been referred to as the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT) at Camp Blanding, Florida. Presently, the ICLRT is jointly operated by UF and Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) and additionally includes the Lightning Observatory in Gainesville (LOG). Over the 22-year period (1993–2014), the total number of flashes triggered at Camp Blanding was 456; that is, on average about 21 per year, with about 15 (71 percent) of them containing return strokes. Out of the total of 456 flashes, 448 transported negative charge and eight either positive charge or both negative and positive charges to ground. Besides triggered-lightning flashes, discharges occurring naturally over and in the vicinity of the Camp Blanding facility were also studied.

A list of journal papers, in reverse chronological order, presenting or using the results of triggered lightning experiments and natural lightning observations at Camp Blanding, Florida, is given below. The first journal paper was published in 1995, and the total number of papers published in 20 years (1995–2014) is 114. The experiments at Camp Blanding and associated modeling continue, and, hence, the bibliography will be in need of updating soon.

2014

1. • Simultaneously measured lightning return stroke channel-base current and luminosity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 7799–805, 2014, F. L. Carvalho, D. M. Jordan, M. A. Uman, T. Ngin, W. R. Gamerota, and J. T. Pilkey, doi:10.1002/2014GL062190

2. • Calculation of current distribution in the lightning protective system of a residential house, IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, Vol. 50, No. 2, 7005404, February 2014, P. Wang, L. Li, and V. A. Rakov, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2283257

3. • Evaluation of the GLD360 performance characteristics using rocket-and-wire triggered lightning data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 3636–42, S. Mallick, V. A. Rakov, T. Ngin, W. R. Gamerota, J. T. Pilkey, J. D. Hill, M. A. Uman, D. M. Jordan, A. Nag, and R. K. Said, doi:10.1002/2014GL059920