Frontiers in Lightning Research and Opportunities for Scientists from Developing Countries

Lightning research has been playing an important role for decades in the scientific community. Lightning researchers have been putting a huge effort into solving issues in electromagnetic modeling, instrumentation, and the analysis of large datasets. Scientists from developing countries are in constant  improvement of their techniques for lightning research because they need to do more with fewer resources. In this chapter, we discuss a brief history of lightning research to understand at which point we are now. After that, it is shown the main topics of lighting research that, the most relevant journals published at the beginning of the XXI century. Later, it is discussed some studies that were carried in developing countries including Brazil, Colombia, India, Malaysia, South Africa, and Sri-Lanka, that are the more prominent developing countries in lightning research. In the end, it is discussed the frontiers in lightning research for developing countries, which it is addressed the use of artificial intelligence in lightning research.