| DOI: | 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0124.1
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84942849704
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| 论文题名: | TRMM LIS climatology of thunderstorm occurrence and conditional lightning flash rates |
| 作者: | Cecil D.J.; Buechler D.E.; Blakeslee R.J.
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| 刊名: | Journal of Climate
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| ISSN: | 8948755
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| 出版年: | 2015
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| 卷: | 28, 期:16 | | 起始页码: | 6536
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| 结束页码: | 6547
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| 语种: | 英语
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| Scopus关键词: | Atmospheric electricity
; Climatology
; Lightning
; Lightning protection
; Rain
; Rain gages
; Storms
; Tropics
; Conditional means
; Convective storms
; Global tropics
; Lightning flash rate
; Lightning imaging sensors
; Subtropical regions
; Total lightning
; Tropical rainfall measuring mission satellites
; Thunderstorms
; atmospheric electricity
; climatology
; convective system
; lightning
; thunderstorm
; TRMM
; Argentina
; Australia
; Central Africa
; China
; Pakistan
; United States
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| 英文摘要: | The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has previously been used to build climatologies of mean lightning flash rate across the global tropics and subtropics. This new work explores climatologies of thunderstorm occurrence as seen by LIS and the conditional mean flash rates when thunderstorms do occur. The region where thunderstorms are seen most often by LIS extends slightly farther east in central Africa than the corresponding region with the highest total mean annual flash rates. Presumably this reflects a difference between more frequent thunderstorm initiation in the east and upscale growth as storms move westward. There are some differences between locations with the greatest total lightning flash counts and those where thunderstorms occur most often. The greatest conditional mean flash rates-considering only those TRMMorbits that do have lightning in a given grid box-are found in subtropical regions. The highest values are in Argentina, with the central United States, Pakistan, eastern China, and the east coast of Australia also having particularly high values. © 2015 American Meteorological Society. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/50873
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
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Cecil D.J.,Buechler D.E.,Blakeslee R.J.. TRMM LIS climatology of thunderstorm occurrence and conditional lightning flash rates[J]. Journal of Climate,2015-01-01,28(16)
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