Emerging Trends and Opportunities for the Operational Application of Lightning Data
This presentation provides a brief overview of the operational use of lightning data in nowcasting and forecasting with a focus on the development of new and expanded applications since the 12 th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE 2003). The continued operation of the NASA Lighting Imaging Sensor, now in its 10 th year of on-orbit observations, the expanded coverage of long range VLF sferics networks, and the deployment of national lightning mapping networks (both cloud-to-ground and total lightning) provide increasingly global-scale coverage, while the expanded use of total lightning VHF mapping systems are providing very high spatial-temporal three-dimensional local to regional observations, and are improving our knowledge of thunderstorm and cloud processes. Lightning data are increasingly being added to the multi-sensor mix in nowcasting/short-range forecasting systems and test beds, and the utility of lightning data in mesoscale models continues to show promise. Soon, before the end of the year 2007, NASA and NOAA will have begun the development of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper for the GEOS-R series of operational weather satellites, promising to usher in a new era of continuous storm surveillance from the west coast of Africa to New Zealand, enabling many new and unforeseen applications of lightning data to benefit society.
Steven J. Goodman
NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Research and Applications, Camp Springs, MD, 20746, USA
国际会议
第13届国际大气电学会议(The 13th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity)
北京
英文
2007-08-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）