Investigating the relationship of lightning activity and rainfall: A case study for Crete Island

Effect of cloud-to-ground lightning and meteorological conditions on surface NOx and O3 in Hong Kong

“…F 3 mainly represented the variation of −NO x and WS, suggesting the dilution effect of wind on NO x . F 4 mostly depended on RF, LSF and APC, which indicates that intensive lightning activities were usually associated with heavy rainfall (Iordanidou et al, 2016). Main contributors to the factors at Tung Chung and Kwai Chung were similar to those at Tap Mun, as shown in Table 4.…”

Review article: A comprehensive review of datasets and methodologies employed to produce thunderstorm climatologies

“…Radar and satellite imagery are often used to track thunderstorm cells in real time for the purpose of nowcasting (anticipating the next most likely movement of the cell) using 3-D reflectivity profiles to define the extent and structure of a thunderstorm (Dixon and Wiener, 1993;Johnson et al, 1998;del Moral et al, 2018). These tracking algorithms have also been applied to historical thunderstorms to develop a catalogue of thunderstorm movements and severity (Chronis et al, 2015;Farnell and Rigo, 2020).…”

“…When using output from multiple radar datasets, they need to be merged into a composite so that thunderstorm clusters can be tracked (Lock and Houston, 2015). The linking of clusters into a track has been achieved using both wind direction data (Lock and Houston, 2015) and the previous motion of the storm (Dixon and Wiener, 1993;Johnson et al, 1998;del Moral et al, 2018). The initiation point of a thunderstorm can be approximated by interpolating backwards using the trajectory of the thunderstorm by a time step of 15 min before it was first detected (Lock and Houston, 2015).…”

The Lightning Jump Algorithm for Nowcasting Convective Rainfall in Catalonia

“…Although the LJ was initially related to severe weather, in the last few years, some works have tried to associate it with convective rainfall (this, with the peak of maximum intensity or one hour cumulated rainfall, depends on the analysis and the data available). For instance, some studies have shown a positive relationship between the increase of the lightning activity (searching or not for jumps) and the intensification of precipitation, with a lead time (LT), which is the time gap between both occurrences, that moves from a few minutes to one hour [19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. The work in [26] showed that the main connection between lightning and rainfall was due to rebounding collisions between ice-phase particles in the presence of supercooled liquid water, which is related to non-inductive charging and cold-cloud precipitation, depending on the type of precipitation [27,28].…”