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 ...
Tag: thunderstorms
Thunderstorms Leave Giant Ripples in the Ionosphere That European GPS Networks Can Now Track
Using more than 1,200 European GNSS receivers, researchers have tracked circular ripples in the ionosphere launched by five different types ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jet Streams, Not Just Heat, Drive Thunderstorms in Eastern Iraq, 30-Year Study Finds
A 30-year analysis of thunderstorms over Khanaqin, Iraq, shows that jet stream dynamics and upper-level troughs, rather than convective energy ...
Finland’s Derecho-Producing Storm Environments Are Becoming More Frequent
A new analysis of Finnish derechos shows that the warm, moist, sheared atmospheric environments that produce these destructive widespread windstorms ...
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 ...
AI reads 800 years of storm chronicles to reconstruct Europe’s thunderstorm past
Researchers decoded nearly 7,000 historical Central European reports of thunderstorms and hail dating back to the year 1000 and trained ...
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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