Lightning enhancement over major oceanic shipping lanes

Thornton, Joel A.; Virts, Katrina S.; Holzworth, Robert H.; Mitchell, Todd P.

doi:10.1002/2017GL074982

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Lightning enhancement over major oceanic shipping lanes

2017
By Thornton, Joel A. ; Virts, Katrina S. ; Holzworth, Robert H. ; ...
Source: Geophys. Res. Lett., 44(17) 9102-9111

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Geophysical Research Letters
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Thornton, Joel A. ; Virts, Katrina S. ; Holzworth, Robert H. ; Mitchell, Todd P.

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Using 12 years of high-resolution global lightning stroke data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), we show that lightning density is enhanced by up to a factor of 2 directly over shipping lanes in the northeastern Indian Ocean and the South China Sea as compared to adjacent areas with similar climatological characteristics. The lightning enhancement is most prominent during the convectively active season, November–April for the Indian Ocean and April–December in the South China Sea, and has been detectable from at least 2005 to the present. We hypothesize that emissions of aerosol particles and precursors by maritime vessel traffic lead to a microphysical enhancement of convection and storm electrification in the region of the shipping lanes. These persistent localized anthropogenic perturbations to otherwise clean regions are a unique opportunity to more thoroughly understand the sensitivity of maritime deep convection and lightning to aerosol particles.
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Geophys. Res. Lett., 44(17) 9102-9111
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