scholarly journals On the relationship between cloud-to-ground lightning and convective rainfall

1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (D12) ◽  
pp. 14025-14040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter A. Petersen ◽  
Steven A. Rutledge
Keyword(s):  
Convective Rainfall ◽  
Cloud To Ground Lightning ◽  
The Relationship

The Relationship Between Cloud-to-Ground Lightning and Precipitations Ice Mass: A Radar study over Houston

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Gauthier ◽  
Walter A. Petersen ◽  
Lawrence D. Carey ◽  
Jr. Christian ◽  
Hugh J.
Keyword(s):  
Cloud To Ground Lightning ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Space–Time Characteristics of Areal Reduction Factors and Rainfall Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Korbinian Breinl ◽  
Hannes Müller-Thomy ◽  
Günter Blöschl
Keyword(s):  
Return Period ◽  
Lightning Activity ◽  
Convective Activity ◽  
Convective Rainfall ◽  
The West ◽  
Rain Gauges ◽  
Fixed Area ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reduction Factors

AbstractWe estimate areal reduction factors (ARFs; the ratio of catchment rainfall and point rainfall) varying in space and time using a fixed-area method for Austria and link them to the dominating rainfall processes in the region. We particularly focus on two subregions in the west and east of the country, where stratiform and convective rainfall processes dominate, respectively. ARFs are estimated using a rainfall dataset of 306 rain gauges with hourly resolution for five durations between 1 h and 1 day. Results indicate that the ARFs decay faster with area in regions of increased convective activity than in regions dominated by stratiform processes. Low ARF values occur where and when lightning activity (as a proxy for convective activity) is high, but some areas with reduced lightning activity exhibit also rather low ARFs as, in summer, convective rainfall can occur in any part of the country. ARFs tend to decrease with increasing return period, possibly because the contribution of convective rainfall is higher. The results of this study are consistent with similar studies in humid climates and provide new insights regarding the relationship of ARFs and dominating rainfall processes.

scholarly journals Algorithm for Improved QPE over Complex Terrain Using Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Occurrences

Atmosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Carlos Minjarez-Sosa ◽  
Julio Waissman ◽  
Christopher Castro ◽  
David Adams
Keyword(s):  
Complex Terrain ◽  
Convective Precipitation ◽  
North American Monsoon ◽  
Monsoon Region ◽  
Convective Rainfall ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Lightning Detection ◽  
Cloud To Ground Lightning ◽  
Noise Test

Lightning and deep convective precipitation have long been studied as closely linked variables, the former being viewed as a proxy, or estimator, of the latter. However, to date, no single methodology or algorithm exists for estimating lightning-derived precipitation in a gridded form. This paper, the third in a series, details the specific algorithm where convective rainfall was estimated with cloud-to-ground lightning occurrences from the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), for the North American Monsoon region. Specifically, the authors present the methodology employed in their previous studies to get this estimation, noise test, spatial and temporal neighbors and the algorithm of the Kalman filter for dynamically derived precipitation from lightning.

The relationship of leader and return stroke processes in cloud-to-ground lightning

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (19) ◽  
pp. 2613-2616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Mazur ◽  
Lothar H. Ruhnke ◽  
Pierre Laroche
Keyword(s):  
Return Stroke ◽  
Cloud To Ground Lightning ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Relationship between lightning and model simulated microphysical parameters over the central and eastern Mediterranean

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1719-1726
Author(s):  
D. K. Katsanos ◽  
K. Lagouvardos ◽  
V. Kotroni
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Lightning Activity ◽  
Decay Phase ◽  
National Observatory ◽  
Convective Rainfall ◽  
Mm5 Model ◽  
Microphysical Parameters ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. In this study the relationship between lightning and simulated microphysical parameters of clouds, is examined. In order to investigate such a relationship, a number of cases with significant lightning activity that occurred during the wet period of the year over the central and eastern Mediterranean have been selected, based on the lightning activity reported by the ZEUS lighting detection network, operated by the National Observatory of Athens. For the same cases, simulations with the non-hydrostatic MM5 model were performed with the aim of reproducing the dynamical and microphysical parameters associated with the weather systems that produced lightning. The analysis showed that the temporal distribution of convective rainfall is not well correlated with that of lightning, while on the contrary, the temporal distribution of the simulated concentrations of solid hydrometeors correlates well with lightning and there is also a general coincidence of their maxima. Further, it was shown that the best correlation was found during the development stage of the storms, while during the decay phase the number of lightning decreases much faster that the simulated concentrations of solid hydrometeors.

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