The RELAMPAGO lightning map** array: Overview and initial comparison with the geostationary lightning mapper

TJ Lang, EE Ávila, RJ Blakeslee… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract During November 2018–April 2019, an 11-station very high frequency (VHF)
Lightning Map** Array (LMA) was deployed to Córdoba Province, Argentina. The purpose …

Extreme oxidant amounts produced by lightning in storm clouds

WH Brune, PJ McFarland, E Bruning, S Waugh… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Lightning increases the atmosphere's ability to cleanse itself by producing nitric oxide (NO),
leading to atmospheric chemistry that forms ozone (O3) and the atmosphere's primary …

Time evolution of satellite‐based optical properties in lightning flashes, and its impact on GLM flash detection

D Zhang, KL Cummins - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The GOES‐16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) detection efficiency (DE) is
studied over a full year (2018/19) in central Florida using the Kennedy Space Center …

Evaluating Geostationary Lightning Mapper flash rates within intense convective storms

SA Rutledge, KA Hilburn, A Clayton… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) marks the first time that lightning
observations at storm‐scale resolution are operationally available from geostationary orbit …

The propagation, evolution, and rotation in linear storms (PERiLS) project

KA Kosiba, AW Lyza, RJ Trapp… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Quasi-linear convective systems (QLCSs) are responsible for approximately a quarter of all
tornado events in the United States, but no field campaigns have focused specifically on …

WMO world record lightning extremes: Longest reported flash distance and longest reported flash duration

TJ Lang, S Pédeboy, W Rison… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract A World Meteorological Organization weather and climate extremes committee has
judged that the world's longest reported distance for a single lightning flash occurred with a …

Megaflashes: Just how long can a lightning discharge get?

WA Lyons, EC Bruning, TA Warner… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The existence of mesoscale lightning discharges on the order of 100 km in length has been
known since the radar-based findings of Ligda in the mid-1950s. However, it took the …

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 …

Lightning and Radar Measures of Mixed-Phase Updraft Variability in Tracked Storms during the TRACER Field Campaign in Houston, Texas

EC Bruning, KN Brunner… - Monthly Weather …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Properties of 7488 thunderstorms are summarized for June–September 2022
during the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment (TRACER) field campaign …

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 …