Abstract: Law echoes (C-scale in GATE terminology., approximately 100 to 10 000 km2) seem to produce most of the precipitation that occurs in tropical systems. These large echoes are seen to last several hours and comprise many ...

Abstract: Long-term changes in the number of lightning deaths from 1900 to 1991 have been examined for the contiguous United States. The population-normalized series revealed an exponential decrease in the number of deaths per million ...

Abstract: Although they are a fairly consistent feature, the sea-breeze and lake-breeze convergence lines and the associated convection over south Florida during the summer may vary considerably from one day to the next. Daily radar ...

Abstract: Lightning location data from northeastern Colorado and central Florida for the summer months of 1983 have been studied to ascertain the diurnal development of spatial distributions of flash frequencies. In both locales, a ...

Abstract: Long-term changes in the number of lightning deaths from 1900 to 1991 have been examined for the contiguous United States. The population-normalized series revealed an exponential decrease in the number of deaths per million ...

Abstract: Long-term fluctuations in the number of lightning deaths and injuries from 1959 to 1990 have been examined for the contiguous United States. After taking into account the population increase, there was an overall trend ...

Abstract: A reduction by a factor of 10 in the population-weighted rate of lightning-caused deaths over the last century has been determined in several previous studies. The reasons have been attributed to a number of factors, but ...

Abstract: Convective bursts and breaks in the southwest U.S. monsoon are investigated in a lightning context because cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning is an excellent indicator of deep convection. Bursts and breaks are identified using ...

Abstract: Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning shows great variability across Arizona from one year to the next as well as from one day to the next. Availability of moisture, location of the subtropical ridge axis, transitory troughs in ...

Abstract: Volume scan radar studies incorporating the use of an elaborate method of defining and tracking convective rain cells through their lifetime have been used to a) Explore and verify, in quantitative terms, the basic tenet ...