A possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the Mediterranean Sea and the Altiplano ...
<!--!introduction!--> Exceptionally high energy lightning strokes >10 6 J (X1000 stronger than average) in the very low-frequency band between 5 and 18 kHz, also known as super bolts (SB), occur mostly during winter over the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, and over the Altiplano in S...
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ftdatacite:10.57757/iugg23-1602 2023-07-23T04:20:39+02:00 A possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the Mediterranean Sea and the Altiplano ... Rosenfeld, Daniel Efraim, Avichay Holzworth, Robert Thornton, Joel 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-1602 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5018002 unknown GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 Article ConferencePaper Oral 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-1602 2023-07-03T16:19:41Z <!--!introduction!--> Exceptionally high energy lightning strokes >10 6 J (X1000 stronger than average) in the very low-frequency band between 5 and 18 kHz, also known as super bolts (SB), occur mostly during winter over the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, and over the Altiplano in South America. This study compares the World-Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) database with meteorological and aerosol data to examine the causes that determine lightning stroke energies. Our results show that the energy per stroke increases sharply as the distance between the charging zone (where the cloud electrification occurs) and the surface decreases. Since the charging zone occurs above the 0 °C isotherm, this distance is shorter when the 0 °C isotherm is closer to the surface. It occurs either due to cold air mass over the ocean during winter, or high surface altitude in the Altiplano during summer thunderstorms. Stroke energy increases also with storm intensity as related to lower cloud top ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... Conference Object North Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) The Altiplano ENVELOPE(163.917,163.917,-78.133,-78.133) |
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<!--!introduction!--> Exceptionally high energy lightning strokes >10 6 J (X1000 stronger than average) in the very low-frequency band between 5 and 18 kHz, also known as super bolts (SB), occur mostly during winter over the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, and over the Altiplano in South America. This study compares the World-Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) database with meteorological and aerosol data to examine the causes that determine lightning stroke energies. Our results show that the energy per stroke increases sharply as the distance between the charging zone (where the cloud electrification occurs) and the surface decreases. Since the charging zone occurs above the 0 °C isotherm, this distance is shorter when the 0 °C isotherm is closer to the surface. It occurs either due to cold air mass over the ocean during winter, or high surface altitude in the Altiplano during summer thunderstorms. Stroke energy increases also with storm intensity as related to lower cloud top ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... |
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Rosenfeld, Daniel Efraim, Avichay Holzworth, Robert Thornton, Joel |
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Rosenfeld, Daniel Efraim, Avichay Holzworth, Robert Thornton, Joel A possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the Mediterranean Sea and the Altiplano ... |
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Rosenfeld, Daniel Efraim, Avichay Holzworth, Robert Thornton, Joel |
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Rosenfeld, Daniel |
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A possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the Mediterranean Sea and the Altiplano ... |
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A possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the Mediterranean Sea and the Altiplano ... |
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A possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the Mediterranean Sea and the Altiplano ... |
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A possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the Mediterranean Sea and the Altiplano ... |
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A possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the Mediterranean Sea and the Altiplano ... |
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possible cause for preference of super bolt lightning over the mediterranean sea and the altiplano ... |
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GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences |
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2023 |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-1602 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5018002 |
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ENVELOPE(163.917,163.917,-78.133,-78.133) |
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North Atlantic |
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