Operational Use of Cloud to Ground Lightning Strike Data at a Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU)

Ewald, Carl C.

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Operational Use of Cloud to Ground Lightning Strike Data at a Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU)

1987
By Ewald, Carl C.
Series: Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.)) 87-11(A)

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Personal Author:

Ewald, Carl C.
Corporate Authors:

United States. National Weather Service. Eastern Region
NOAA Program & Office:

NWS (National Weather Service) ; ER (Eastern Region)
Description:

During the summer when thunderstorms have higher tops and stronger intensities 99 percent of the CG lightning strikes are negative. Positive CG lightning are usually associated with weaker or embedded thunderstorms. We define the rate of strikes as the number of cloud to ground lightning strikes in 10 minutes.
Keywords:

Lightning Real-time Data Processing Severe Storms Thunderstorms Real-time Data Processing Severe Storms
Series:

Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.)) 87-11(A)
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pdf
Document Type:

Technical Attachment
Place as Subject:

East (U.S.)
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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CC0 Public Domain
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Submitted
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