Cloud-to-ground lightning flash density and thunderstorm day distributions over the contiguous United States derived from NLDN measurements: 1993–2018

TL Koehler - Monthly Weather Review, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study employs cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flash data from the US National Lightning
Detection Network (NLDN) to examine temporal and spatial distributions of lightning flash …

Thunder hours: How old methods offer new insights into thunderstorm climatology

EA DiGangi, M Stock, J Lapierre - Bulletin of the American …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Lightning data are often used to measure the location and intensity of thunderstorms. This
study presents 5 years of data from the Earth Networks Global Lightning Detection Network …

An initial assessment of the distribution of total Flash Rate Density (FRD) in Brazil from GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) observations

PSS Oda, DP Enoré, EV Mattos, WA Gonçalves… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Brazil is one of the regions in the world where lightning most occurs. With the launch of the
Geostationary Environmental Operational Satellite–16 (GOES-16), it was possible, for the …

Spatial and temporal variability of cloud-to-ground lightning over the continental US during the period 1995–2010

G Villarini, JA Smith - Atmospheric research, 2013 - Elsevier
We use 16years (1995–2010) of data from the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN)
to examine the spatial and temporal variability of major cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning days …

Spatial structure of lightning and precipitation associated with lightning-caused wildfires in the central to eastern United States

B Vant-Hull, W Koshak - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
The horizontal storm structure surrounding 92,512 lightning-ignited wildfires is examined in
the mid to eastern sections of the United States from 2003 to 2015 using Vaisala's National …

[HTML][HTML] A 10-year study on the characteristics of thunderstorms in Belgium based on cloud-to-ground lightning data

DR Poelman - Monthly Weather Review, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Temporal and spatial distributions of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning in Belgium are
analyzed. Based on data from the European Cooperation for Lightning Detection (EUCLID) …

The effects of Sao Paulo urban heat island on lightning activity: Decadal analysis (1999–2009)

V Bourscheidt, O Pinto Jr… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Eleven years of lightning data from the Brazilian Integrated National Lightning Detection
Network were used to analyze the effects of the urban heat island (UHI) of Sao Paulo on …

Improvements on lightning density estimation based on analysis of lightning location system performance parameters: Brazilian case

V Bourscheidt, O Pinto… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Density maps are one of the most common and powerful lightning data applications, and
they are more efficient the more detailed they are. When working with CG lightning data from …

Optimizing precipitation thresholds for best correlation between dry lightning and wildfires

B Vant‐Hull, T Thompson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This work examines how to adjust the definition of “dry lightning” in order to optimize the
correlation between dry lightning flash count and the climatology of large (> 400 km2) …

Long-range spatial correlations and fluctuation statistics of lightning activity rates in Brazil

HV Ribeiro, FJ Antonio, LGA Alves, EK Lenzi… - Europhysics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a statistical analysis of the lightning activity rates in all Brazilian cities. We find
out that the average of lightning activity rates exhibits a dependence on the latitude of the …