A new prognostic, spatially and temporally dependent variable is introduced to the Weather
Research and Forecasting Model (WRF). This variable is called the potential electrical …

A new parameterization able to diagnose lightning flash densities is proposed for the
ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System, including its tangent-linear and adjoint versions …

Severe weather events are responsible for hundreds of fatalities and millions of euros of
damage every year on the Mediterranean basin. Lightning activity is a characteristic …

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) …

Lightning flash rate is strongly influenced by cloud microphysics, such as cloud ice
properties, but this relationship is poorly constrained. Here we analyze 20 years of satellite …

We show, for the first time over Italy and over part of the central Mediterranean Basin, the
impact of lightning data assimilation (LDA) on the strokes forecast for a long period. We use …

Lightning is an important threat to life and properties and its forecast is important for several
applications. In this paper, we show the performance of the “dynamic lightning scheme” for …

An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Using Observed Lightning to Improve Convective Lightning
Forecasts in: Weather and Forecasting Volume 30 Issue 2 (2015) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Thunderstorm electrical structures favouring cloud-to-ground lightning were investigated
through a Lightning Mapping Array (LMA), an accurate three-dimensional lightning location …

This paper shows the results of a tailored version of a previously published methodology,
designed to simulate lightning activity, implemented into the Regional Atmospheric …