Regional Differences in Tropical Lightning Distributions

By D. Boccippio, S. Goodman, S. Heckman. 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Thermodynamic Conditions Favorable to Superlative Thunderstorm Updraft, Mixed Phase Microphysics and Lightning Flash Rate (2005, methodology): “Lightning flash rates for thunderstorms throughout the latitude range 358S to 358N are recorded with the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on board the NASA TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) satellite (Boccippio et al., 2000).”
TRMM observations of the global relationship between ice water content and lightning (2005, background): “This noise is the combined result of the bin interval chosen, the discrete nature of lightning flash counts, a maximum LIS view time of 80 seconds, and a lower LIS flash rate detection threshold of 1 Fl/minute [Boccippio et al., 2000].”
Raindrop Size Distribution and Radar Parameters at Cape Verde (2003, background): “…humidity flux, and maybe maritime or continental character, because atmospheric stability and, thus, convection are different over sea than over land, as suggested by the land–sea difference in the lightning activity (Zipser 1994; Christian et al. 1999; Boccippio et al. 2000; Seity et al. 2001).”
Performance Assessment of the Optical Transient Detector and Lightning Imaging Sensor. Part I: Predicted Diurnal Variability (2002, methodology): “Boccippio et al. (2000b) compared a large sample of National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) truth flashes with OTD observations, and predicted the weighted diurnal mean OTD F for 8-bit threshold 15 (7-bit threshold 8, the same used in this study) to be 55%–70%.”
Remote sensed and in situ constraints on processes affecting tropical tropospheric ozone (2006, methodology): “The LIS, OTD and GOME instruments The Optical Transient Detector (OTD) (Boccippio et al., 2000b) was launched in 1995 on the MicroLab-1 satellite.”
Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space by the Optical Transient Detector (2003, unknown): “…frontal systems make their way northward into the basin and the storms are more strongly forced, leading to deeper storms with stronger vertical velocities and a more developed mixed phase region with abundant ice particle concentrations [ Boccippio et al. , 2000b; Petersen and Rutledge , 2001].”
Lightning and climate: A review (2005, background): “A large number of papers have appeared with many developments aided by new data sources for global lightning, both optical (Boccippio et al, 2000; Christian et al, 2003) and rf (Mackerras et al, 1998; Huang et al, 1999; Fullekrug and Constable, 2000; Wood and Inan, 2002).”
Deep Convective System Evolution over Africa and the Tropical Atlantic (2007, background): “As found in previous studies (Machado and Rossow 1993; Boccippio et al. 2000; Toracinta and Zipser 2001; Schumacher and Houze 2003a, 2006), convective sys5056 J O U R N A L O F C L I M A T E VOLUME 20”