Multiple environmental influences on the lightning of cold-based continental cumulonimbus clouds. Part I: Description and validation of model

In this two-part paper, influences from environmental factors on lightning in a convective storm are assessed with a model. In Part I, an electrical component is described and applied in the Aerosol-Cloud model (AC). AC treats many types of secondary (e.g., breakup in ice-ice collisions, raindrop-freezing fragmentation, rime splintering) and primary (heterogeneous, homogeneous freezing) ice initiation. AC represents lightning flashes with a statistical treatment of branching from a fractal law constrained by video imagery.

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Author Phillips, Vaughan T. J.
Formenton, Marco
Kanawade, Vijay P.
Karlsson, Linus R.
Patade, Sachin
Sun, Jiming
Barthe, Christelle
Pinty, Jean-Pierre
Detwiler, Andrew G.
Lyu, Weitao
Tessendorf, Sarah A.
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Library
Publication Date 2020-12-01T00:00:00
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Metadata Date 2023-08-18T18:28:52.222164
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.opensky::articles:24328
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Suggested Citation Phillips, Vaughan T. J., Formenton, Marco, Kanawade, Vijay P., Karlsson, Linus R., Patade, Sachin, Sun, Jiming, Barthe, Christelle, Pinty, Jean-Pierre, Detwiler, Andrew G., Lyu, Weitao, Tessendorf, Sarah A.. (2020). Multiple environmental influences on the lightning of cold-based continental cumulonimbus clouds. Part I: Description and validation of model. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7cc143q. Accessed 20 June 2025.

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