Lightning response to temperature and aerosols
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 weat...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:46dbf6e621a44d30a390938bbed16625 2024-09-15T18:02:17+00:00 Lightning response to temperature and aerosols Xiushu Qie Yoav Yair Shaoxuan Di Zifan Huang Rubin Jiang 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf https://doaj.org/article/46dbf6e621a44d30a390938bbed16625 EN eng IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf 1748-9326 https://doaj.org/article/46dbf6e621a44d30a390938bbed16625 Environmental Research Letters, Vol 19, Iss 8, p 083003 (2024) lightning temperature aerosols theomodynamics CAPE Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 article 2024 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad63bf 2024-08-05T17:48:38Z 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 Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Environmental Research Letters 19 8 083003 |
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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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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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