GeoRayos a new aplication for severe weather warning

NICORA M.G.; QUEL E.J.; BALI L.; ACQUESTA A.; BÜRGESSER R.; AVILA E. E.; SALIO P.; VIDAL L.

Simposio; International Symposium on Lightning Protection; 2015

This work presents a lightning jump algorithm(LJA): ?GeoRayos? to detect severe weather; it is based on thealgorithm presented by Schultz et al. (2011) [1]. The lightningdata used in this study came from the World Wide LightningLocation Network which is a real-time, world-wide and groundnetwork. In this study, the lightning activity occurred duringspring and summer of 2013 on the region [20?50]S of latitude and[50?70]W of longitude was examined. The LJA was validated byusing information of severe weather occurrence in the report"Estudio de los Tornados en la Rep. Argentina" this unpublishedreport (M. L. Altinger de Schwarzkopf, personal communication)provides severe phenomena occurred since 1930 to the present,also we used information from the National Weather Service inArgentina, local argentinean media, and radar data. The spatialand time distributions of lightning jumps were analyzed by usingdifferent spatial and temporal scales.