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E. Williams

This active storm near Batesville, Texas, produced frequent cloud-to-ground lightning.
Posted inScience Updates

Lightning: A New Essential Climate Variable

by V. Aich, R. Holzworth, S. J. Goodman, Y. Kuleshov, C. Price and E. Williams 7 September 201813 February 2023

Lightning is a symptom and a cause of climate change. A recently established task team is working to make lightning data available and useful for climate science and service applications.

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Roger Lhermitte (1920–2016)

by E. Williams 22 May 201825 February 2022

This luminary in the field of weather radar did it all, from basic engineering to sophisticated analysis.

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Theodore Richard Madden (1925–2013)

by E. Williams, N. Madden, J. Madden and H. Madden 15 December 20145 May 2022

Madden, an AGU Fellow and a lifelong professor of geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was fascinated with all things electromagnetic. He died on 11 November 2013 at age 88.

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