Lightning Mapping Arrays: Technical Status and Developments

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Washington, DC Greater Metro Area Lightning Mapping Stations (8 Stations, 2 more stations to be added, Spring 2008) APL UMBC Sterling MCCC Howard GMU NVCC CSM Joint Project: New Mexico Tech, NASA Global Hydrology and Climatology Center, NOAA National Weather Service
DC Lightning Mapping Array ● Experimental, demonstration network -- Urban environment, operates in upper VHF (Ch 10) -- Use internet for data communications (real-time, post-storm) ● Real time data processing done by NASA and provided to NWS for nowcasting the weather. ● Real time data at: http://branch.nsstc.nasa.gov/PUBLIC/DCLMA Hosting Institutions: ● Howard University ● Montgomery County Community College – Rockville, MD ● NWS Test and Evaluation Facility – Sterling, VA ● College of Southern Maryland – La Plata, MD ● Johns Hopkins – Applied Physics Laboratory ● North Virginia Community College – Annandale, VA ● University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) ● George Mason University (Prince William Campus, Manassas). 8 station network, 2 more stations to be added, Spring 2008
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Page 4 and 5: Height vs. N-S Example of a highly
Page 6 and 7: VHF Time-Of-Arrival (TOA) Total Lig
Page 8 and 9: VHF Frequency Spectrum LMA stations
Page 10 and 11: Oklahoma LMA ● Eleven-station net
Page 12 and 13: Oklahoma LMA ● For 11 station net
Page 14 and 15: VHF Time-Of-Arrival (TOA) Total Lig
Page 16 and 17: ● Decimated data or full data?
Page 18 and 19: Portable LMA Stations • Electroni
Page 20 and 21: Received signal at Homer during the
Page 22 and 23: 700 ms horizontally extensive light
Page 24 and 25: Three Types of Electrical Discharge
Page 26 and 27: March 28, 2009 eruption ● ~30 min
Page 29: Comparison of NEXRAD and Lightning
Page 33 and 34: Bolt from the Blue Discharge © Har
Page 35 and 36: Sept 8, 2006
Page 37 and 38: DC LMA diagnostic webpage Data inge
Page 39 and 40: April 4, 2007 ● 10 min time inter
Page 41 and 42: Intracloud Discharge (+) (--) ● B
Page 43 and 44: Low IC Discharges ● Between negat
Page 45: May 13, 2007 ● Active lower (+) r
Page 49 and 50: AWIPS Display, NWS Forecast Office,
Page 51 and 52: Total Lightning Observations
Page 53 and 54: May 27, 2007
Page 55 and 56: February 22, 2007 Winter storm, low
Page 57 and 58: REFERENCE: Thomas, R.J., P.R. Krehb
Page 59 and 60: WSMR - Aircraft sparking observatio
Page 61 and 62: Total Lightning Observations ● Cl
Page 63 and 64: Tornadic Storm, June 29, STEPS 2000
Page 65 and 66: DC LMA Stations (Urban Network) How
Page 67: DC LMA diagnostic web table Decembe
Page 72: 5 min intvl
Page 76 and 77: Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array (U
Page 78 and 79: Concluding Remarks ● Very helpful
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