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| Titel |
Relationship between lightning and model simulated microphysical parameters over the central and eastern Mediterranean |
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D. K. Katsanos, K. Lagouvardos, V. Kotroni |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 9, no. 5 ; Nr. 9, no. 5 (2009-10-21), S.1719-1726 |
| Datensatznummer |
250006992
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-9-1719-2009.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| In this study the relationship between lightning and simulated microphysical
parameters of clouds, is examined. In order to investigate such a
relationship, a number of cases with significant lightning activity that
occurred during the wet period of the year over the central and eastern
Mediterranean have been selected, based on the lightning activity reported by
the ZEUS lighting detection network, operated by the National Observatory of
Athens. For the same cases, simulations with the non-hydrostatic MM5 model
were performed with the aim of reproducing the dynamical and microphysical
parameters associated with the weather systems that produced lightning. The
analysis showed that the temporal distribution of convective rainfall is not
well correlated with that of lightning, while on the contrary, the temporal
distribution of the simulated concentrations of solid hydrometeors correlates
well with lightning and there is also a general coincidence of their maxima.
Further, it was shown that the best correlation was found during the
development stage of the storms, while during the decay phase the number of
lightning decreases much faster that the simulated concentrations of solid
hydrometeors. |
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