PPT Slide
- Lightning is forced by, and varies with, outbreaks of convective activity over a variety of temporal/spatial scales (storm to climate)
- Storm-scale convective structure
- Intraseasonal changes in convective regime and bursts/breaks in SW monsoon convection
- Diurnal cycle of convection
- Interannual variability of convection
- Lightning location is a strong function of topography in SW monsoon region.
- Indicate preferred locations/timing of convection/convective rainfall in NAME domain as a function of underlying land surface characteristics.
- Valuable/useful over complex terrain of the SMO where gaps exist in current observational network