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=== The International Center for Lightning Research and Testing ===
Florida has more [[lightning]] than any other U.S. state.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ucar.edu/communications/infopack/lightning/faq.html#us |title=Lightning: FAQ |author=UCAR Communications |website=Ucar.edu |access-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306122834/http://www.ucar.edu/communications/infopack/lightning/faq.html#us |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> UF sponsors the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT), which occupies over {{Convert|100|acre}} at the [[Camp Blanding]] Army National Guard Base,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lightning.ece.ufl.edu/ |title=Lightning Research Laboratory (UF) |website=Lightning.ece.ufl.edu |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219194554/http://www.lightning.ece.ufl.edu/ |archive-date=December 19, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> about {{Convert|25|mi}} northeast of UF's campus in Gainesville, Florida. One of their primary research tools is lightning initiation from overhead thunderclouds, using the triggered lightning rocket-and-wire technique. Small sounding rockets, connected to long copper wires, are fired into likely lightning storm [[cumulonimbus]] clouds. When the rocket—or its wire—is struck by lightning, the passing of the high-voltage lightning strike down the wire vaporizes it as the lightning travels to the ground.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hoover |first1=Aaron |title=Learning About Lightning: University of Florida Researchers Are International Leaders In Understanding One of Nature's Most Powerful Forces |journal=Explore Magazine |date=Fall 1998 |volume=3 |issue=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pittman |first1=Craig |title=In Florida, nation's only lightning center closes after DARPA cuts funding |url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/in-florida-nations-only-lightning-center-closes-after-darpa-cuts-funding/2331129/ |work=Tampa Bay Times |access-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604192837/https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/in-florida-nations-only-lightning-center-closes-after-darpa-cuts-funding/2331129/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Undergraduate and graduate research in UF's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Lightning Research Group is used to increase new fundamental knowledge about lightning-based phenomena.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Coble |first1=Don |title=UF researchers base international lightning research at Camp Blanding |url=https://www.claytodayonline.com/stories/uf-researchers-base-international-lightning-research-at-camp-blanding,61053 |work=Clay Today |access-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604193224/https://www.claytodayonline.com/stories/uf-researchers-base-international-lightning-research-at-camp-blanding,61053 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rakov |first=Vladimir A. |last2=Uman |first2=M. A. |last3=Rambo |first3=K. J. |date=2005-07-01 |title=A review of ten years of triggered-lightning experiments at Camp Blanding, Florida |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169809505000682 |journal=Atmospheric Research |series=Atmospheric Electricity |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=503–517 |doi=10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.11.028 |issn=0169-8095}}</ref>