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Situational lightning climatologies
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Bauman, William Crawford, Winifred |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | Research has revealed distinct spatial and temporal distributions of lightning occurrence that are strongly influenced by large-scale atmospheric flow regimes. It was believed there were two flow systems, but it has been discovered that actually there are seven distinct flow regimes. The Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) has recalculated the lightning climatologies for the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), and the eight airfields in the National Weather Service in Melbourne (NWS MLB) County Warning Area (CWA) using individual lightning strike data to improve the accuracy of the climatologies. The software determines the location of each CG lightning strike with 5-, 10-, 20-, and 30-nmi (.9.3-, 18.5-, 37-, 55.6-km) radii from each airfield. Each CG lightning strike is binned at 1-, 3-, and 6-hour intervals at each specified radius. The software merges the CG lightning strike time intervals and distance with each wind flow regime and creates probability statistics for each time interval, radii, and flow regime, and stratifies them by month and warm season. The AMU also updated the graphical user interface (GUI) with the new data. |
| File Size | 53195 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20100033571 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7pp4316x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2010-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Temporal Distribution Atmospheric Circulation Climatology Position Location Spatial Distribution Probability Theory Graphical User Interface Cloud-to-ground Discharges Wind Meteorology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |