@Article{PintoJúniorPintFari:2003:CoAnLi,
               author = "Pinto J{\'u}nior, Osmar and Pinto, Iara Regina Cardoso de Almeida 
                         and Faria, H. H. de",
          affiliation = "Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Divis{\~a}o de 
                         Geof{\'{\i}}sica Espacial and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais 
                         (INPE)}",
                title = "A comparative analysis of lightning data from lightning networks 
                         and LIS sensor in the North and Southeast of Brazil",
              journal = "Geophysical Research Letters",
                 year = "2003",
               volume = "30",
               number = "2",
                pages = "1073 (4pp)",
                month = "Jan.",
             keywords = "contiguous united-states, american continent, storm system, 
                         cloud.",
             abstract = "Intracloud and cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning data in the North 
                         and Southeast regions of Brazil are compared based on observations 
                         from 01 October 1999 to 13 April 2000. The observations were made 
                         by ground networks and the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on board 
                         the TRMM satellite. For the whole period of observation, a 
                         detailed comparative analysis indicates that the cloud-to-ground 
                         lightning activity in the North region is about 20% higher than 
                         that in the Southeast for a similar size area, while the 
                         percentage of intracloud flashes is almost the same in both 
                         regions ( similar to60-65%). On a 49-day basis (to avoid the local 
                         time bias in the LIS data), the same analysis indicates that the 
                         lightning activity recorded by LIS is representative of the CG 
                         lightning activity detected by the lightning networks, either in 
                         the same time and space seen by the satellite sensor, or in the 
                         area of the study. It was also found that the percentage of 
                         positive CG flashes in the North region is correlated to the 
                         percentage of intracloud flashes.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                  doi = "10.1029/2002GL016009",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002GL016009",
                 issn = "0094-8276",
                label = "self-archiving-INPE-MCTIC-GOV-BR",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "grl16311.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "11 maio 2024"
}