A comparison of lightning activity and convective indices over some monsoon-prone areas of China

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2-4, 2009, Pages 438-452

  Dai, Jianhua ^a,b   Wang, Yuan ^a   Chen, Lei ^b   Tao, Lan ^b   Gu, Jianfeng ^b   Wang, Jianchu ^b   Xu, Xiaodong ^b   Lin, Hong ^b   Gu, Yudan ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU   (China)

Author keywords

Convective index; Lightning flash rate; Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS); Lightning probability forecasting; Thunderstorm development

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; FORECASTING; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESTORATION; SENSORS; STORMS; THUNDERSTORMS;

AMBIENT MOISTURES; CELL RATES; COMPENSATION SCHEMES; CONVECTIVE INDEX; CORRELATION ANALYSES; DATA RECONSTRUCTIONS; DERIVED PRODUCTS; DEVELOPMENT MECHANISMS; DIURNAL CYCLES; FLASH RATES; LIGHTNING ACTIVITIES; LIGHTNING DETECTIONS; LIGHTNING FLASH RATE; LIGHTNING FLASHES; LIGHTNING FORECASTS; POTENTIAL ANALYSES; RADIOSONDE DATUMS; REGRESSION EQUATIONS; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERTICAL WIND SHEARS;

LIGHTNING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; LIGHTNING; PROBABILITY; RADIOSONDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SENSOR; THUNDERSTORM; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 58149337353     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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