TRMM observations of the global relationship between ice water content and lightning

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Jul 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3214819p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 14, CiteID L14819

Physics

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Atmospheric Processes: Convective Processes, Atmospheric Processes: Lightning, Atmospheric Processes: Precipitation (1854), Atmospheric Processes: Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Processes: Tropical Meteorology

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This study uses TRMM lightning and radar observations to study the fundamental relationship between precipitation ice mass and lightning flash density. The results indicate that the physical assumptions of precipitation-based charging and mixed phase precipitation development are robust and that on a global scale, the relationship between precipitation ice water path and lightning flash density is relatively invariant between land, ocean and coastal regimes. Hence lightning data may be a useful variable for inclusion in combined space borne algorithms designed to retrieve ice water content.

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