Rainfall estimation from cloud-to-ground lightning data

=== The correlation between convective activity and the occurrence of lightning has been exploited in several works. The monitoring and tracking of convective activity is conventionally achieved by the use of weather radars, but many countries, like Brazil, lack an extensive coverage of such radars...

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Main Author: João Victor Cal Garcia
Other Authors: Stephan Stephany
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) 2014
Online Access:http://urlib.net/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21b/2014/03.14.20.54