@InProceedings{VargasJrZepkAzamPint:2014:StCoWR,
               author = "Vargas Junior, Vanderlei Rocha de and Zepka, Gisele dos Santos and 
                         Azambuja, Rodrigo da Rosa and Pinto J{\'u}nior, Osmar",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Study of the correlation between WRF output variables and 
                         lightning activity in southeastern Brazil",
            booktitle = "Anais...",
                 year = "2014",
         organization = "International Lightning Detection Conference, 23. (ILDC); and 
                         International Lightning Meteorology Conference, 5 (ILMC).",
             keywords = "WRF, lightning activity, BrasilDAT.",
             abstract = "The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is suitable to 
                         reproduce the thermo-hydrodynamic coupling structure of atmosphere 
                         in order to analyze and/or predict the weather conditions. Knowing 
                         in advance meteorological scenarios responsible for the occurrence 
                         of severe thunderstorms is important since these natural phenomena 
                         usually cause huge economic injuries and more than one hundred 
                         casualties every year in Brazil. The present work intends to 
                         identify common patterns between the meteorological behavior of 
                         atmosphere and the occurrence of lightning for convective systems 
                         over southeastern Brazil. To accomplish this objective, we will 
                         use: (a) total lightning data from BrasilDAT, for constructing 
                         lightning activity maps, (b) output variables from high-resolution 
                         WRF simulations, for evaluating atmospheric conditions, and (c) 
                         correlation methods based on multivariate statistics. The initial 
                         study will consist to create, for each WRF grid point, a matrix in 
                         which the columns will correspond to the WRF variables to be 
                         analyzed, and the rows to the model time step. After the 
                         application of the chosen correlation method, the result will 
                         again be a matrix, for each WRF grid point, containing the mutual 
                         correlation between all variables investigated and lightning 
                         activity, allowing to analyze and compare spatially this 
                         correlation. Thus, we will intend to better understand the 
                         physical process involved in the lightning occurrence, and 
                         contribute to the development of indicators that make possible to 
                         forecast this kind of phenomenon.",
  conference-location = "Tucson, USA",
      conference-year = "mar. 18-19, 2014 / mar. 20-21, 2014",
                label = "lattes: 9435846940733081 1 VargasJrZepkAzamPint:2014:STCOWR",
             language = "pt",
           targetfile = "Vargas Jr et al-Correlation between WRF and Lightning Activity in 
                         Southeastern Brazil-2014-ILDC-ILMC.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}