Thunderstorm activity and the structure of tropical cyclones

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• 作者：M. S. Permyakov ; E. Yu. Potalova ; B. M. Shevtsov…
• 关键词：tropical cyclones ; thunderstorms activity ; lightning localization ; very low frequency radiation
• 刊名：Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：28
• 期：6
• 页码：585-590
• 全文大小：1,114 KB
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• 作者单位：M. S. Permyakov (1) (2)
  E. Yu. Potalova (1) (2)
  B. M. Shevtsov (3)
  N. V. Cherneva (3)
  R. H. Holzworth (4)
  
  1. V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Institute of Oceanology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Baltiiskaya 43, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
  2. Far Eastern Federal University, ul. Sukhanova 8, Vladivostok, 690091, Russia
  3. Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radio Wave Propagation, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Mirnaya 7, Paratunka, Kamchatka krai, 684034, Russia
  4. World Wide Lightning Location Network, University of Washington, ESS Box 351310, Johnson Hall Room 70, Seattle, WA, 98195-1310, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Applied Optics, Optoelectronics and Optical Devices
  Russian Library of Science
  
• 出版者：MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica distributed exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media LLC.
• ISSN：2070-0393

文摘

Synoptic and mesoscale cyclonic systems over the ocean and seas are often accompanied by thunderstorm activity, the intensity and spatial distribution of which is modulated by the dynamic structure of these systems. Lightning discharges are sources of electromagnetic radiation in the range of very low frequencies (VLF) and are detected by VLF location finders. Using the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), relations between characteristics of fields of detected lightning discharges in the north-western part of the Pacific Ocean and those of fields of meteorological elements of weather formations estimated by data of remote sensing of the Earth by satellites are studied by an example of tropical cyclones. We illustrate a technique permitting one to connect thunderstorm activity parameters (frequency and intensity, as well as spatial distribution of lightning discharges) with the structure of weather systems over oceans and seas and with the intensity and forms of mesoscale formations distinguished in these systems by fields of the near-water wind vortex (the fields are obtained using a scatterometer) and by satellite images in the visible and infrared ranges. The relations between the frequency and density of lightning discharges in the range of influence of a tropical cyclone (TC) and spatial distribution of the near-water wind vortex are demonstrated by an example of individual TCs of 2005-013. Keywords tropical cyclones thunderstorms activity lightning localization very low frequency radiation