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Nowcasting the lightning activity in Peninsular Malaysia using the GPS PWV during the 2009 inter-monsoons
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Suparta, Wayan Adnan, Ja’afar Ali, Mohd Alauddin Mohd |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | The spatial and temporal radio wave delay of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal can be manipulated to estimate the precipitable water vapor (PWV) which favorable for meteorological applications. A rapid change of the water vapor amount was a precondition for the unbalanced atmospheric charges, which noticeably associated with the development of convective cloud as a lightning chamber. According to this fact, GPS derived PWV will be utilized to nowcasting the lightning event for the next couple of hours. The variances of PWV of four-selected station of the Peninsular Malaysia during the past two inter-monsoons events in May and November 2009 were analyzed. To clarify the response, the changes of PWV in hourly Δ (max-min) before the lightning event was investigated with minimum value 2 mm and is maintained at least three consecutive hours. There are 177 samples were extracted from this method and 69% of the sample showed the lightning occurrence with an average duration was after the six consecutive hours. The lightning day with 2 mm Δ was also higher than the fair weather of 6.3%. These findings suggest that the GPS data can be proposed further as a guide to nowcast the occurrence of lightning activity. |
| Starting Page | 0217 |
| Ending Page | 0217 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.4401/ag-6373 |
| Volume Number | 57 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/download/6373/6362 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-6373 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |