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The lightning density is the number of lightning strokes or flashes per chosen spatial area (e.g. km\u00b2) and time interval (e.g. min). It can be derived using measurements from ground-based lightning location networks or lightning imagers\/mappers onboard meteoro-logical satellites.
\nTypically total lightning (intra-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning) is considered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The lightning activity of a convective storm is linked to the updraft strength. Thus monitoring lightning characteristics of convective storms help to assess storm intensity and potential severity. Lightning jumps, i.e. a rapid increase in lightning rate, have shown to be a precursor of reported severe weather in many cases.<\/p>\n
Advantages:<\/h2>\n
\u2713 Useful for monitoring of storm severity X\u00a0Depends on detection efficiency of used lightning location network or lightning mapper \/ imager.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Mostly on national level, typically for their internal use only.<\/p>\n Lightning density products will come available for the new Lightning Imager on board MTG via NWCSAF.<\/p>\n EUMETRAIN event week<\/a><\/p>\n Lightning Imager on MTG <\/a><\/p>\n Geostationary Lightning Mapper on GOES-R<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div> Prepared by K. Wapler, DWD, 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n < MSG Sandwich Image Products<\/a> Home<\/a> <\/strong> MSG Global Instability Index<\/a> ><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lightning Density Experimentally \/operationally produced by National Meteorological Services. Prepared by K. Wapler, DWD, 2018. < MSG Sandwich Image Products Home MSG Global Instability Index ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2713 Available during night and day
\n\u2713 Applicable to any lightning location network or lightning mapper \/ imager.
\n\u2713 Easy to configure spatial and temporal resolution dependent on application<\/span><\/p>\nLimitations:<\/h2>\n
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