摘要
Lightning and lightning induced effects have significant influence on many aspects affecting the public, whichmakes the research of lightning and lightning protection very important. However, due to the strong randomness andcomplex discharge mechanisms of lightning, the understanding of lightning is still far from satisfactory. On the basis ofthe International Conference on Lightning Protection 2014, this study gives a review of recent progress on lightningand lightning protection research covering the following aspects: lightning locating and observation, lightning physics,lightning electromagnetic transients, and lightning protection for various systems. The goals of this study are to givereaders an overall introduction to the recent progress in lightning and lightning protection research, and to motivatethem to conduct further studies to address the unsolved problems in lightning-related research.
