The global environment is changing rapidly, as the result of factors that act at multiple spatial
and temporal scales. It is now clear that local processes can affect broad‐scale ecological …

A performance assessment of the Worldwide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) is
presented using the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) as ground truth, over …

Abstract We use World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) data on the radiated
radio frequency electromagnetic energy per stroke to identify the upper tip of the global …

Severe and extreme weather is a major natural hazard all over the world, often resulting in
major natural disasters such as hail storms, tornados, wind storms, flash floods, forest fires …

Rainfall variability in humid West Africa (south of 8oN) is less studied than that of the
Sahelian zone, the data for which are responsible for the general consensus of a downward …

Eastern Africa, classically presented as a major dry climate anomaly region in the otherwise
wet equatorial belt, is a transition zone between the monsoon domains of West Africa and …

Hurricanes are the Earth's most deadly storms, causing tremendous devastation around the
globe every year. Forecasters are quite successful in predicting the pathways of hurricanes …

Warm conveyor belts (WCBs) are important Lagrangian features in extratropical cyclones for
the evolution of clouds, precipitation and flow dynamics. According to the classical concept …

The physics of solar forcing of the climate and long term climate change is summarized, and
the role of energetic charged particles (including cosmic rays) on cloud formation and their …

What Are the Favorable Large-Scale Environments for the Highest-Flash-Rate
Thunderstorms on Earth? in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 77 Issue 5 (2020) …