lightning
Let an agent handle lightning by physics, forms, safety guidance, protection systems and warnings, routing lightning injuries to emergency care.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Safety Protection now.
Shelter
What to do.
Shelter
Lightning safety.
- Is a thunderstorm nearby, and where is safe shelter according to official guidance? provenance
- How long should people wait after the last thunder? measurement
Injury
Emergency.
Injury
Lightning injuries.
- Has someone been struck by lightning? boundary
- Which emergency number should be called, and is it safe to help them? action
Warnings Forecasts.
Forecast
Thunderstorm risk.
Forecast
Thunderstorm warnings.
- What thunderstorm warnings are in force? provenance
- Which service issues them? provenance
Detection
Lightning maps.
Detection
Lightning detection.
- Where can live lightning detection maps be found? provenance
- How accurate are they? boundary
Physics How it forms.
Charge
Separation.
Charge
Charge separation.
- How does charge separate in storm clouds? definition
- What triggers a discharge? definition
Thunder
Sound.
Thunder
Thunder.
- Why does thunder follow lightning? definition
- How can distance be estimated from the delay? measurement
Protection Buildings.
Systems
Lightning conductors.
Systems
Protection systems.
- Does this building need a lightning protection system? provenance
- Which standard applies? provenance
Surge
Electronics.
Surge
Surge protection.
- How can electronics be protected from surges? action
- Should an electrician install surge protection? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- noun.phenomenon
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.FLW
- Facets: substance
- energy
- Facets: origin
- natural
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- forked lightning, chain lightning, thunderbolt, bolt, bolt of lightning
What it is Filled
A sudden electrostatic discharge within clouds, between clouds or between a cloud and the ground, producing a bright flash and thunder; visible forms include forked and sheet lightning, and strikes cause injuries, fires and damage; ball lightning is a reported luminous phenomenon whose physical mechanism remains unsettled and is not established as the same kind of thunder-producing electrostatic discharge.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle lightning by physics, forms, safety guidance, protection systems and warnings, routing lightning injuries to emergency care.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Electrical discharge
- Accompanied by thunder
- Deadly and destructive
- Forecast as thunderstorm risk
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Advise people to shelter under trees, in open fields or on water during storms.
- Downplay a lightning warning for outdoor events.
- Advise touching lightning protection systems or damaging their earthing.
Only with a human decision
- Calling off outdoor events or work for storms.
May
- Report lightning warnings and detection data from weather services.
- Advise people to seek shelter during thunderstorms.
Moral aspects Filled
- Lightning kills and injures people outdoors, especially farm workers in poorer countries.
- It starts wildfires that harm communities.
Who is affected
- People outdoors
- Outdoor workers
- Event crowds
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; weather services monitor and warn.
Master systems
- Lightning detection network data
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-11496631-n - registry parent class
related
- atmospheric electrical phenomenon - category
- thunderstorm - weather
- thunder - effect
- lightning protection system - protection
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.lightning
- Open English WordNet: oewn-11495679-n
Direct properties required Filled
- peak current: about 30000 A - typical cloud-to-ground stroke
Recognition required Filled
- Forked and sheet lightning
- Thunder after the flash
- Ball lightning is rare and poorly understood
- Bright branching flashes of light, followed by thunder.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- follow lightning safety guidance
- find thunderstorm warnings
- explain how lightning forms
- understand lightning protection for buildings
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Lightning strike injuries
- Fires and power outages
- Unsafe shelter choices
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- IEC 62305 lightning protection
- National weather warning services
Context of use required Filled
- A natural hazard and atmospheric phenomenon.
- cloud-to-ground lightning
- intracloud and cloud-to-cloud lightning
- sheet lightning
- ball lightning
- volcanic lightning
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-11495679-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: lightning - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should lightning forms be separate entries?
- How should warning services be linked?
- How should ball lightning be described?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-lightning/spec.json