Analysis of the lightning production of convective cells

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-12-5573-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5573-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5573-2019

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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 10

Research article

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22 Oct 2019

Research article |

| 22 Oct 2019

Analysis of the lightning production of convective cells

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, 03 Jun 2019
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RC2: 'Analysis of the lightning production of convective cells - review', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Jun 2019
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Short summary

This paper presents an analysis of the lightning production of convective cells. Polarimetric weather radar data were used to identify and characterize the convective cells while lightning was detected using the EUCLID network and a lightning mapping array deployed during the summer of 2017 in the northeastern part of Switzerland. In it we show that there is a good correlation between the height of the rimed-particle column and the intensity of the lightning activity in the convective cell.