International Symposium on Lightning and Storm Related Phenomena (ISL-SRP)

The Symposium

The International Symposium on Lightning and Storm Related Phenomena (ISL-SRP) is a meeting organized by the Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Foudre (Lightning Research Laboratory).

This event is intended to promote interdisciplinary exchanges between scientists in the fields of lightning and thunderstorms, and to present the work in progress in the thematic areas covered.

Participation

The symposium is open only to professional researchers working in the field, and other who contribute actively to our understanding of lightning and storm related phenomena.

Thematic Areas

• The study of lightning and its effects.
• Ball lightning.
• Thunderstorm prediction and modeling.
• Lightning detection.
• Observation of thunderstorms from space.
• Phenomena link to lightning and thunderstorm.
• Lightning medical research.
• Sociological or ethnological aspects of lightning and thunderstorms.

Timeline & Format

The symposium will take the form of contributed oral presentations, each 20 minutes long with an additional 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Presentations in English.

Registration Fees

• Participation in the symposium is free, only upon registration.

Call to communications

• Title of the communication.
• Name, first name and e-mail of the author and all coauthors with Institution or organization attachment.
• Key words 3 to 5.
• Thematic area.
• Summary of the communication in 5000 signs maximum, including spaces. Possibility to include drawings, diagrams and illustrations.

Timetable

• Registrations opening & first call for abstracts :
• Deadline for submissions :
• Publication of the program :
• Registrations closing :