WHERE ARE THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ON EARTH

By E. Zipser, D. Cecil, Chuntao Liu, S. Nesbitt, David P. Yorty. 2006

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Sensitivity of WRF cloud microphysics to simulations of a severe thunderstorm event over Southeast India (2010, background): “Many previous studies have used convective updraft speeds to define the intensity of convection, with greater convective updraft speeds indicating more intense storms that lofts more ice into anvils and produce more lightning (Zipser et al., 2006).”
• Characteristics of Deep Tropical and Subtropical Convection from Nadir-Viewing High-Altitude Airborne Doppler Radar (2010, methodology): “1.9 cm in diameter, or the presence of a tornado (Zipser et al. 2006), and strong wind gusts.”
• The global lightning-induced nitrogen oxides source (2007, methodology): “Such data are available from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite between 36 • S and 36 • N. Global data are available from the 85-GHz passive microwave sensor on a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) polar orbiting satellite (Zipser et al., 2006).”
• Deep Convective System Evolution over Africa and the Tropical Atlantic (2007, background): “Most GCMs are formulated strictly in terms of cumulus mass fluxes, with no ability to predict mesoscale structure or convective intensity, which change as convective systems evolve and differ markedly between land and ocean (Zipser and Lutz 1994; Zipser et al. 2006).”
• Will moist convection be stronger in a warmer climate? (2007, background): “[7] Zipser et al. [2006] find the United States and Africa to have the most intense thunderstorms on Earth.”
• The GOES-R GeoStationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) (2012, background): “, 2012), to the extreme flash rates (>1000 fl min−1) associated with mesoscale convective systems in the La Plata Basin (Cecil et al., 2005; Zipser et al., 2006).”