Abstract: Global lightning activity is highly variable on many timescales. This variability is attributable to changes in the flash rate per thunderstorm, the number of thunderstorms, or a combination. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring ...

Abstract: A ?dimensional reduction? (?DR?) method is introduced for analyzing lightning field changes (?Es) whereby the number of unknowns in a discrete two-charge model is reduced from the standard eight (x, y, z, Q, x?, y?, z?, ...

Abstract: Lightning data from the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) are used to perform preliminary validation of the satellite-based Optical Transient Detector (OTD). Sensor precision, accuracy, detection efficiency, ...

Abstract: Two approaches are used to characterize how accurately the north Alabama Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) is able to locate lightning VHF sources in space and time. The first method uses a Monte Carlo computer simulation to ...