Europe’s New Lightning Imager Logs 595 Million Flashes in First Year
In its first year of operation, the Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager detected 595 million flashes and mapped lightning hot-spots...
April lightning bursts around Japan’s Nansei Islands traced to Kuroshio and wind shear
A study of Japanese lightning detection data links April bursts of cloud-to-ground flashes around the Nansei Islands to low-level inflow...
Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager detection performances
An 18-month assessment found that the Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager detected 87.4% of reference flashes across its field of...
Europe’s Lightning Map Gets a Reality Check: Towers Reveal Network Pins Strikes Within 125 Metres
A 14-year study of 257 tall structures across Europe validates the EUCLID lightning detection network, finding a median location accuracy...
From Cloud Bows to Lightning: New Satellite Instruments Reshape Earth Observation
A new Frontiers in Remote Sensing collection showcases polarimetric cloud imaging, cloud tomography, event-based lightning sensors, adaptive pointing strategies, and...
Lightning Strokes Mapped as Point Events Reveal the Hidden Rhythm of Severe Thunderstorms
A new study of six UK thunderstorms treats every lightning stroke as a point in time and space, extracting storm...
Fake Lightning, Real Training: Synthetic Bolts Teach AI to Spot the Real Thing
Researchers in Colombia have developed heuristic and hyper-heuristic algorithms that generate synthetic lightning paths with controlled tortuosity, achieving about 99...
How Big, Bright Flashes Make More Pollution: Lightning’s Nitrogen Footprint Measured From Space
Combining Europe's new geostationary lightning imager with a dense ground-based mapping array, researchers show that longer, brighter and longer-lasting lightning...
Lightning’s Planetary Hum: New Formulas Turn Schumann Resonances Into a Global Thunderstorm Radar
Researchers have derived calibration formulas that let a single observatory extract both the distance and the size of global thunderstorm...
Cosmic-Ray Muons Reveal Gigavolt Electric Fields Hidden Inside Thunderstorms
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope in India uses cosmic-ray muons to measure gigavolt electric fields inside thunderstorms and has explained why...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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