Abstract: A study of the morphology and evolution of winter thunderstorms in Israel and over the eastern Mediterranean was conducted during the 1995?96 winter season. Electrically active cells were analyzed by combining data from ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study of the characteristics of lightning activity during the Cyprus low winter storms over the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. The focus is on changes in the nature of thunderstorms crossing the ...

Abstract: ixteen years of Tropical Rain Measuring Mission (TRMM) reflectivity profile data are collected for oceanic, continental, and island tropical regions within the boreal winter intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). When ...

Abstract: Shallow convection is a subgrid process in cloud-resolving models for which their grid box is larger than the size of small cumulus clouds (Cu). At the same time such Cu substantially affect radiation properties and ...