@InProceedings{NaccaratoPint:2011:SpAn,
               author = "Naccarato, Kleber Pinheiro and Pinto Junior, Osmar",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Cloud-to-ground lightning characteristics in Southern and 
                         Southeastern Brazil: spatial analysis",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2011",
         organization = "International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, 14.",
             keywords = "Lightning Image Sensor (LIS).",
             abstract = "After the integration of three regional lightning detection 
                         networks (SIDDEM and RINDAT) in June 2005, the Brazilian lightning 
                         detection network (BrasilDAT) covered almost 50% of Brazil except 
                         to the Amazon basin and the Northeastern Brazil. For the last 6 
                         years (2005-2010), the BrasilDAT network has been detecting 
                         cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flashes over the mid-southern part 
                         of Brazil with relative high accuracy (estimated average detection 
                         efficiency of 80% and average location accuracy of less than 1km). 
                         In this paper, the CG lightning distribution in Southern and 
                         Southeastern Brazil will be presented based on the 6-year data 
                         from BrasilDAT. Furthermore, detection efficiency (DE) corrections 
                         were provided to compensate variations due to sensor faults or 
                         changes in network geometry. There is evidences that the 
                         topography and the occurrence of frontal systems (which are common 
                         in the Southeastern Brazil) are responsible for the spatial 
                         distribution of the CG flashes observed. The increase in the 
                         number of CG flashes observed in the central-southern Paran{\'a} 
                         and western Rio Grande do Sul might be related to the occurrence 
                         of Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS) which are very large 
                         time-persistent meteorological systems characterized by high CG 
                         flash rates.",
  conference-location = "Rio de Janeiro",
      conference-year = "08-12 Aug",
                label = "self-archiving-INPE-MCTI-GOV-BR",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "K.Naccarato - Cloud-to-ground lightning characteristics in 
                         Southern and Southeastern Brazil spatial analysis.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "11 maio 2024"
}