ILMC 2008

Tropical Lightning
Analysis of inner core lightning rates in 2004-2007 Atlantic and East Pacific tropical cyclones using Vaisala’s Long Range Lightning Detection Network (LLDN) (1659 KB)
Climatologies
About sensitivity of cloud-to-ground lightning activity to surface air temperature changes at different time scales in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil (833 KB)
A lightning climatology of South Africa for the first two years of operation of the South African Weather Service lightning detection network: 2006-2007 (1051 KB)
Case Studies
Total lightning, radar, and satellite observations of two monsoon thunderstorm events in the Tucson area in summer 2007 (4572 KB)
Lightning and electrical structure of a heavy-precipitation supercell storm during TELEX (2661 KB)
The Greensburg Miracle - Where there's life, there's hope (1227 KB)
LF Nowcasting & Precipitation
Rainfall field reconstruction over Italy through LAMPINET lightning data (818 KB)
Assimilation
Lightning data assimilation using an Ensemble Kalman Filter (401 KB)
Assimilation of lightning data using a diabatic digital filter within the Rapid Update Cycle (2376 KB)
Winter Lightning
Total lightning in a TLE-bearing winter thunderstorm over the western Mediterranean (663 KB)
Severe winter thunderstorm in Poland case study (1753 KB)
Examples of winter lightning observed by the JLDN (236 KB)
Analysis of cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning in winter precipitation (952 KB)
Lightning Forecasting
Dynamical-statistical models for lightning prediction to 48-hr over Canada and the United States (1111 KB)
A forecast cloud-to-ground lightning system based on a neural network (215 KB)
Update to the lightning probability forecast equations at Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (559 KB)
Total Lightning Nowcasting
VHF total lightning mapping data use for thunderstorm nowcasting at weather forecast offices (153 KB)
Lightning detection system for nowcasting applications in Santa Catarina State, Brazil (511 KB)
Lightning studies at Florida State University (3274 KB)