PPT Slide
- Hydrometeorology
- Lightning observations can help to fill existing observational network gaps in NAME, providing continuous long-term climatological/hydrological observations of convection and rainfall.
- Established connections between lightning, cloud physics and improvement of QPE (e.g., rainfall, convective structure, precipitation microphysics, latent heating)
- Climate
- Multi-year sampling of convective processes and precipitation in the NAME Tier-1 domain via installation of Cloud-to-Ground (CG) lightning network – provide an enhancement/complement to observation network, including satellites
- Continuous, wide-area detection [O(105 km2)]
- 500-1000 m location accuracy; 70-90 % Detection efficiency