Abstract:<p>We study evolution of lightning activity accompanying rapid intensity changes of tropical cyclones worldwide. We use a dataset of 400 tropical cyclones occurring between 2012 and 2017. We use the cyclones tracks from the International Best Track Archive for Clime Stewardship. The lightning data are provided by the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN). We inspect the lightning activity and median stroke energies accompanying rapid intensifications (RI) of cyclones, defined as increases… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.