@InProceedings{NaccaratoAlbrPint:2011:MoVaCl,
               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 = "Monthly variations of cloud-to-ground lighting in Brazil based on 
                         high-resolution lightning image sensor (LIS) data",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2011",
         organization = "International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, 14.",
             keywords = "Lighting, Imaging Sensor Data.",
             abstract = "Brazil is a very large country that extends southbound from the 
                         equatorial to the subtropical zone (more precisely from latitude 
                         6°N to 33°S). Thus, it is expected that different meteorological 
                         systems act in different regions of the country affecting the 
                         cloud-to-ground (CG) lighting activity throughout the year. Based 
                         on 13 years of LIS measurements (1998-2010) at a 0.1º resolution, 
                         it was assessed the monthly variation of the lightning activity 
                         over the five macro-regions of Brazil (North, Northeast, Midwest, 
                         Southeast and South). This CG flash rate densities (FRD) are then 
                         associated to the frequency of occurrence of meteorological 
                         systems and to the monthly variations of precipitation in order to 
                         verify possible correlations between lightning and rainfall and 
                         their association to meteorological systems. The concept of rain 
                         yield per flash was used to assess the convection regimes. It was 
                         found that precipitation and lightning activity at these regions 
                         were well correlated to the known meteorological systems of each 
                         region. Moreover, the rain yield per flash monthly variation and 
                         overall mean were able to capture the physical nature of these 
                         systems, such as deeper convection (like MCS) or more stratiform 
                         precipitation (like the SACZ).",
  conference-location = "Rio de Janeiro",
      conference-year = "2011",
                label = "lattes: 7258266163150929 2 NaccaratoAlbrPint:2011:MoVaOf",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "K.Naccarato - Monthly variations of cloud-to-ground lighting 
                         activity in Brazil based on high-resolution lightning image 
                         sensor.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "11 maio 2024"
}