Taori, A.; Suryavanshi, A.; Pawar, S.; Seshasai, M.V.R. Establishment of Lightning Detection Sensors Network in India: Generation of Essential Climate Variable and Characterization of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Occurrences. Natural Hazards 2021, 111, 19–32, doi:10.1007/s11069-021-05042-8.
Taori, A.; Suryavanshi, A.; Pawar, S.; Seshasai, M.V.R. Establishment of Lightning Detection Sensors Network in India: Generation of Essential Climate Variable and Characterization of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Occurrences. Natural Hazards 2021, 111, 19–32, doi:10.1007/s11069-021-05042-8.
Taori, A.; Suryavanshi, A.; Pawar, S.; Seshasai, M.V.R. Establishment of Lightning Detection Sensors Network in India: Generation of Essential Climate Variable and Characterization of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Occurrences. Natural Hazards 2021, 111, 19–32, doi:10.1007/s11069-021-05042-8.
Taori, A.; Suryavanshi, A.; Pawar, S.; Seshasai, M.V.R. Establishment of Lightning Detection Sensors Network in India: Generation of Essential Climate Variable and Characterization of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Occurrences. Natural Hazards 2021, 111, 19–32, doi:10.1007/s11069-021-05042-8.
Abstract
Atmospheric lightning is an outcome of extreme complex physical processes occurring in the atmosphere. Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning is considered as a natural disaster. Understanding the importance of CG lightning and implication of the lightning phenomena, Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), world meteorological organization, in its report in the year 2016, introduced the lightning as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV). The present report uses the Lightning Detection Sensor Network (LDSN) established by the National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organization over India to generate the Lightning ECV. A use case of these ECVs are also showcased for an event in Bihar, India, when 42 deaths were reported at locations with large number of CG occurrences.
Keywords
Climate; lightning; atmosphere
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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