Lightning response to temperature and aerosols
Abstract Lightning has profound social implications for public safety and usually causes casualties and significant damage to infrastructure. Due to the advancement of both ground-based and spaceborne detection technology, lightning has been monitored globally in recent decades as an indicator of se...
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crioppubl:10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf 2024-09-15T18:02:15+00:00 Lightning response to temperature and aerosols Qie, Xiushu Yair, Yoav Di, Shaoxuan Huang, Zifan Jiang, Rubin the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China the National Natural Science Foundation of China in collaboration with the Israel Science Foundation 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf/pdf unknown IOP Publishing https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://iopscience.iop.org/info/page/text-and-data-mining Environmental Research Letters volume 19, issue 8, page 083003 ISSN 1748-9326 journal-article 2024 crioppubl https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf 2024-08-05T04:19:42Z Abstract Lightning has profound social implications for public safety and usually causes casualties and significant damage to infrastructure. Due to the advancement of both ground-based and spaceborne detection technology, lightning has been monitored globally in recent decades as an indicator of severe weather and an essential variable of climate change. This article reviews recent progress in the study of lightning variations and their response to temperature and aerosols, based on both spaceborne and ground-based lightning data. The responses of lightning to temperature and aerosol show large spatial and temporal heterogeneity, with relation to the meteorological and environmental conditions. The latest research show that lightning exhibited significant increase in some high altitude or high latitude regions, such as the Tibetan Plateau and Arctic regions, where undergone fast warming during the recent decades and the ecosystems is fragile. Aerosol particles play an important role in modulating lightning variations under certain dynamical and thermodynamic conditions in some regions, even on a global scale. The projected lightning activity will generally increase in the future but may with very few exceptions. Continuous long-term lightning observations with consistent spatial and temporal detection efficiency remain crucial for tracking the response of lightning to climate change in the coming decades. Article in Journal/Newspaper Climate change IOP Publishing Environmental Research Letters 19 8 083003 |
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Abstract Lightning has profound social implications for public safety and usually causes casualties and significant damage to infrastructure. Due to the advancement of both ground-based and spaceborne detection technology, lightning has been monitored globally in recent decades as an indicator of severe weather and an essential variable of climate change. This article reviews recent progress in the study of lightning variations and their response to temperature and aerosols, based on both spaceborne and ground-based lightning data. The responses of lightning to temperature and aerosol show large spatial and temporal heterogeneity, with relation to the meteorological and environmental conditions. The latest research show that lightning exhibited significant increase in some high altitude or high latitude regions, such as the Tibetan Plateau and Arctic regions, where undergone fast warming during the recent decades and the ecosystems is fragile. Aerosol particles play an important role in modulating lightning variations under certain dynamical and thermodynamic conditions in some regions, even on a global scale. The projected lightning activity will generally increase in the future but may with very few exceptions. Continuous long-term lightning observations with consistent spatial and temporal detection efficiency remain crucial for tracking the response of lightning to climate change in the coming decades. |
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the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China the National Natural Science Foundation of China in collaboration with the Israel Science Foundation |
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Qie, Xiushu Yair, Yoav Di, Shaoxuan Huang, Zifan Jiang, Rubin |
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Lightning response to temperature and aerosols |
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Lightning response to temperature and aerosols |
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Lightning response to temperature and aerosols |
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Lightning response to temperature and aerosols |
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Lightning response to temperature and aerosols |
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lightning response to temperature and aerosols |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf/pdf |
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Environmental Research Letters volume 19, issue 8, page 083003 ISSN 1748-9326 |
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