@InProceedings{NaccaratoAlbrPint:2011:ClLiDe,
               author = "Naccarato, Kleber Pinheiro and Albrecht, Rachel Ifanger and Pinto, 
                         Osmar",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Cloud-to-ground lightning density over Brazil based on 
                         high-resolution lightning imaging sensor (LIS) data",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2011",
         organization = "International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, 14.",
             keywords = "Lighting.",
             abstract = "Lightning Image Sensor (LIS), an optical instrument on board of 
                         the TRMM satellite, provides total lightning information over the 
                         tropics since 1997, which includes the whole Brazil. In this work, 
                         the cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning distribution over Brazil is 
                         estimated based on a 13-year dataset (1998-2010) of total 
                         lightning with 0.5º, 0.25º, and 0.1º resolutions. Instrument 
                         detection efficiency and view-time corrections were used to 
                         compensate variations due the diurnal cycle and differential 
                         sampling over the equator and tropics. The resulting 
                         cloud-to-ground flash density map indicates that Brazil presents 
                         regions with distinct lightning activity patterns (South, North 
                         and Southeast) which are correlated to distinct meteorological 
                         conditions. These meteorological systems are associated with the 
                         thunderstorms over the different parts of the country, for 
                         example, large mesoscale convective systems in the south, small 
                         convective systems in the north and a transition area over the 
                         southeast part. A more comprehensive analysis is presented in a 
                         joint paper during this same conference. Comparison with a 
                         previous low-resolution map (1º resolution) helped to evaluate 
                         whether the CG lightning patterns remained unchanged when the 
                         resolution is increased. On the other hand, the higher resolution 
                         reveals some new features not observed in the previous 
                         low-resolution map.",
  conference-location = "Rio de Janeiro",
      conference-year = "08-12 Aug",
                label = "lattes: 7258266163150929 2 NaccaratoAlbrPint:2011:ClLiDe",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "k.Naccarato - Cloud-to-ground lightning density over Brazil based 
                         on high-resolution lightning imaging sensor (LIS) data.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "11 maio 2024"
}