Forecasting lightning threat using cloud-resolving model simulations

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 709-729

  McCaul Jr , Eugene W ^a   Goodman, Steven J ^b   LaCasse, Katherine M ^c   Cecil, Daniel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALABAMA; AREAL COVERAGE; CLOUD ELECTRIFICATION; CLOUD-RESOLVING; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; CURRENT GENERATION; DENSITY DATA; FLASH RATE; INITIALIZATION TECHNIQUE; NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PEAK VALUES; PHASE REGION; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS; SPATIAL COVERAGE; TEMPORAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TOTAL LIGHTNING; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUDS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ICE; LIGHTNING; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIMULATORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 69949154702     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222152.1     Document Type: Article

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