1. •AB: Aurora borealis

  2. •AE: Atmospheric electricity

  3. •BL: Ball lightning

  4. •BR: Brontide

  5. •EF: Electrophonics

  6. •EL: Earth lights

  7. •ELR: Enhanced luminosity of rocks

  8. •EQL: Earthquake lights

  9. •GP: Gorgons phenomena

  10. •HP: Hessdalen phenomena

  11. •IF: Ignes fatui

  12. •IL: Ignes lambentes

  13. •LLP: Long-lived plasmas

  14. •MPL: Mountain peak luminosity

  15. •NLC: Noctilucent clouds

  16. •SEF: Saint Elmo's fires

  17. •SL: Speleolights

  18. •SP: Seismic precursors

  19. •TLE: Transient luminous events

  20. •TLP: Transient Lunar phenomena

  21. •TST: Tectonic strain theory

  22. •UP: Unconventional plasmas


You will find in blue the events and manifestations that have ended up creating various subjects of research over the course of the last few decades. In some cases these subjects have led to new sectors of specialization, producing specific literature, symposiums, workshops, and meetings. These, in turn, have generated even more literate organized by subject. Our Database uses these acronyms as “subjects”, used for archiving published materials.


[*] See: AA.VV., LTPA An International Bibliography on Some Luminous Transient Phenomena in the Atmosphere, UPIAR Monograph, 2006

  1. The acronym LTPA, Luminous Transient Phenomena in the Atmosphere [*]

  2. is an abbreviation that was created to group together numerous manifestations of this phenomenon,

  3. which form the Committee’s area of interest

Dedicated to

Dr. STANLEY SINGER

Within the LTPA category, Ball Lightning has a pre-eminent position, both historically, as well as in terms of the number of studies generated.

This is due to researchers who were able build up continued interested in the subject through publications, stimulating hypotheses and consequent research.


U.S. chemist and renowned scholar Stanley Singer has moved knowledge about this phenomena forward from the last century to today, thanks to more than forty years of writing, research and stimulus in comparison and discussion at scientific meetings.


We would like to thank Singer’s family, in particular his son Seymour, for their support for our initiative.



1925

2008

Singer, Stanley, The unsolved problem of ball lightning. Nature, Volume: 198, May, 25, 1963

1963

2004

Singer, Stanley, Consideration of selected ball lightning models. 8th International Symposium on Ball Lightning (ISBL04), 2004

CREDITS: Giuseppe Stilo, Roberto Labanti, Massimo Silvestri, Renzo Cabassi.

THANKS: Paolo Toselli, Edoardo Russo, Erling Strand, Vladimir L. Bychkov, Stelio Montebugnoli, Nico Conti, Renato Fedele, Matteo Leone, Mikhail L. Shmatov, Bjørn Gitle Hauge, Clas Svahn, Alexander Keul, Brett Lalonde, Seymour R. Singer, UPIAR.