Mapping the Lateral Development of Lightning Flashes From Orbit.

ABSTRACT: Optical lightning measurements from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) are used to map the lateral development of lightning flashes and produce statistics that describe their motion through the electrified cloud. This is accomplished by monitoring the frame-by-frame (group-level) evolution of the optical signals produced during each flash. While the optical flash properties recorded by LIS gravitate towards the most exceptional optical signals produced during the flash, group-level data describe the evolution and lateral development of the flash resulting from physical lightning process that emits enough light out of the top of the cloud to be detected from orbit. The groups that comprise LIS flashes constitute examples of complex lateral flash structure that can extend 80 km in length wit

SUBMITTER: Peterson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6894163 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature