Polarimetric radar characteristics of lightning initiation and propagating channels

Figueras i Ventura, Jordi; Pineda, Nicolau; Besic, Nikola; Grazioli, Jacopo; Hering, Alessandro; van der Velde, Oscar A.; Romero, David; Sunjerga, Antonio; Mostajabi, Amirhossein; Azadifar, Mohammad; Rubinstein, Marcos; Montanyà, Joan; Germann, Urs; Rachidi, Farhad

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2881-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2881-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2881-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 5

Research article

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27 May 2019

Research article |

| 27 May 2019

Polarimetric radar characteristics of lightning initiation and propagating channels

Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Nicolau Pineda, Nikola Besic, Jacopo Grazioli, Alessandro Hering, Oscar A. van der Velde, David Romero, Antonio Sunjerga, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Mohammad Azadifar, Marcos Rubinstein, Joan Montanyà, Urs Germann, and Farhad Rachidi

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Feb 2019
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Jordi Figueras, 18 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Jordi Figueras, 18 Apr 2019
RC3: 'Review of paper amt-2019-31 by Figueras et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 05 Mar 2019
- AC3: 'Response to reviewer 3', Jordi Figueras, 18 Apr 2019

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AR by Jordi Figueras on behalf of the Authors (06 May 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

This paper presents an analysis of a large dataset of lightning and polarimetric weather radar data collected over the course of a lightning measurement campaign that took place in the summer of 2017 in the area surrounding Säntis in northeastern Switzerland. We show that polarimetric weather radar data can be helpful in determining regions where lightning is more likely to occur, which is a first step towards a lightning nowcasting system.