Emission spectroscopy techniques have traditionally been used to analyze inherently random lightning arcs occurring in nature. In this paper, a method developed to obtain the emission spectroscopy from reproducible lightning arcs generated within a laboratory environment is described.
Mitchard, D., Clark, D., Carr, D., Stone, C., Haddad, A. Method for Recording Broadband High Resolution Emission Spectra of Laboratory Lightning Arcs. J. Vis. Exp. (150), e56336, doi:10.3791/56336 (2019).