Significantly increased lightning activity over the Tibetan Plateau and its relation to thunderstorm genesis

X Qie, K Qie, L Wei, K Zhu, Z Sun… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Under the context of global warming, we identified a significant increase in lightning activity
in the last two decades over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the highest plateau on earth, based …

Impulsive volcanic plumes generate volcanic lightning and vent discharges: A statistical analysis of Sakurajima volcano in 2015

CM Smith, D Gaudin, AR Van Eaton… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The origin of electrical activity accompanying volcanic ash plumes is an area of heightened
interest in volcanology. However, it is unclear how intense an eruption needs to be to …

Lightning NOx in the 29–30 May 2012 Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Severe Storm and Its Downwind Chemical Consequences

KE Pickering, Y Li, KA Cummings… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A cloud‐resolved storm and chemistry simulation of a severe convective system in
Oklahoma constrained by anvil aircraft observations of NOx was used to estimate the mean …

Evaluation of lightning flash rate parameterizations in a cloud‐resolved WRF‐Chem simulation of the 29–30 May 2012 Oklahoma severe supercell system observed …

KA Cummings, KE Pickering, MC Barth… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Eighteen lightning flash rate parameterization schemes (FRPSs) were investigated in a
Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry cloud‐resolved …

Distinctive signals in 1‐min observations of overshooting tops and lightning activity in a severe supercell thunderstorm

P Borque, L Vidal, M Rugna, TJ Lang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This work examines a severe weather event that took place over central Argentina on 11
December 2018. The evolution of the storm from its initiation, rapid organization into a …

Relationship between lightning, precipitation, and environmental characteristics at mid‐/high latitudes from a GLM and GPM perspective

L Heuscher, C Liu, P Gatlin… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study applies new satellite datasets and methodologies to build on previous research
exploring the physical relationship between lightning and precipitation in mid‐/high …

Observations of lightning in relation to transitions in volcanic activity during the 3 June 2018 Fuego Eruption

CJ Schultz, VP Andrews, KD Genareau, AR Naeger - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Satellite and ground-based remote sensing are combined to characterize lightning
occurrence during the 3 June 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption in Guatemala. The …

A five-year climatological lightning characteristics of linear mesoscale convective systems over North China

D Liu, M Sun, D Su, W Xu, H Yu, Y Chen - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The lightning characteristics of 89 linear mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) occurred
over the Beijing area from the year of 2007 to 2011 were analyzed by lightning data and S …

Thunderstorm charge structures favouring cloud-to-ground lightning

A Salvador, N Pineda, J Montanyà, JA López… - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Thunderstorm electrical structures favouring cloud-to-ground lightning were investigated
through a Lightning Mapping Array (LMA), an accurate three-dimensional lightning location …

Observations of anomalous charge structures in supercell thunderstorms in the Southeastern United States

SM Stough, LD Carey - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anomalous thunderstorm charge structures (ACSs), characterized by a dominant layer of
positive charge in the lower mixed‐phase region, are uncommon and rarely reported …