Verification of a Schumann Resonance Inversion Method for Global Lightning Activity in Absolute Units

Earle R Williams1, Anirban Guha2, Yakun Liu3, Robert A Boldi4, Erno Pracser5, Ryan Said6, Gabriella Satori7, Tamas Bozoki8, Jozsef Bor9, Mike Atkinson10, Ciaran Beggan11, Steven A Cummer12, Fanchao Lyu13, Boris Fain14, Yasuhide Hobara15, Oleksandr Koloskov16, Andrzej Kulak17, Rollin McCraty10, Janusz Mlynarczyk18, Joan Montanya19, Robert C Moore20, Mariusz Neska21, Pascal Ortega22, Colin Gregory Price23, Rahul Rawat24, Mitsuteru Sato25, Ashwini Kumar Sinha26 and Yuri Yampolski27, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Tripura University, Physics, Agartala, India, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Parsons Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, (4)Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, (5)GGRI of HAS, Sopron, Hungary, (6)Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States, (7)Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (ELKH EPSS), Sopron, Hungary, Sopron, Hungary, (8)Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (ELKH EPSS), Geodetic and Geophysical Institute, Sopron, Hungary, (9)Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (ELKH EPSS), Sopron, Hungary, (10)HeartMath Institute, Boulder Creek, CA, United States, (11)British Geological Survey, Geomagnetism, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (12)Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, United States, (13)Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, (14)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (15)Earth Environment Research Station, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, (16)Institute of Radio Astronomy National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine, (17)AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Electronics, Kraków, Poland, (18)AGH University, Krakow, Poland, (19)Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Department of Electrical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, (20)University of Florida - UF, Gainesville, United States, (21)Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (22)University of french Polynesia, Faaa, French Polynesia, (23)Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, (24)Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, UAS, Navi Mumbai, India, (25)Hokkaido University, Faculty of Science, Sapporo, Japan, (26)Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, GPSP, Navi Mumbai, India, (27)Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine