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Tall structures as recurrent lightning spots in the inner tropics Ardila Murillo, Brandon Steven López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria Montanya Puig, Joan Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Enginyeria Elèctrica Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Elèctrica Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LRG - Lightning Research Group This work determines Elevated Structures (ES’s) correspondence with Recurrent Lightning Spots (RLS). The starting point is the location of 616 elevated structures in northeastern Colombia, for which two parameters were studied to asso- ciate them with RLS: lightning recurrence between 2014 and 2021 and the average ground strike point density variation (NSG). It was found that 8.12% of ES’s corresponds to RLS, and more than 50% of RLS are located outside areas with high NSG values. The current distributions show that currents of high magnitudes are related to RLS. In addition, ES’s for which Q3>24.6 kA are more likely to be classified as RLS. Postprint (published version) 2024 Conference report Ardila, B. [et al.]. Tall structures as recurrent lightning spots in the inner tropics. A: International Conference on Lightning Protection. "ICLP 2024 Proceedings: 37th International Conference on Lightning Protection". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024, ISBN 978-3-8007-6416-7. 978-3-8007-6416-7 http://hdl.handle.net/2117/421059 eng Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Open Access application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)