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AN: AE21A-0981 [Abstracts]
TI: Comparison of Storm and Flash Detection by a Satellite Optical System and Network Field Change Sensor
System
AU: * Boeck, W L
EM: boeck@niagara.edu
AF: Niagara University, House 2, Niagara University, NY 14109
United States
AU: Suszcynsky, D M
AE21A-0981
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space andRemote Sensing Sciences, ISR-2, MS D436
, Los Alamos, NM 87545
United States
AU: Light, T E
AE21A-0981
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space andRemote Sensing Sciences, ISR-2, MS D436
, Los Alamos, NM 87545
United States
AU: Shao, X
AE21A-0981
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space andRemote Sensing Sciences, ISR-2, MS D436
, Los Alamos, NM 87545
United States
AU: Christian, H J
AE21A-0981
AF: Global Hydrology and Climate Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35805
United States
AU: Goodman, S J
AE21A-0981
AF: Global Hydrology and Climate Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35805
United States
AB:
The extended lifetime of LIS on the TRMM Mission and the recent installation of the EDOTX sensor system in the Great Plains
of the USA provide an opportunity to compare these sets of storm detection and flash location data. The LIS records optical
signals emerging through the top of a thunderstorm, while the EDOTX network senses electric field changes from a variety of
processes internal to a thunderstorm. On the occasions when the National Lightning Detection Network also identifies a
lightning stroke coincident with the other two sensors, error triangles are plotted to illustrate these three determinations
of the location of a single event. Subsets are extracted to compare only those lightning events that are within the
instantaneous field of view of LIS. Because each system senses a different aspect of a lightning flash, each system can be
used to locate the position of an active storm even though they often do not record the same flash. The cases when one system
does not detect the same storm as the others will also be examined.
DE: 0694 Instruments and techniques
DE: 3324 Lightning
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: Atmospheric and Space Electricity [AE]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005