Average Diurnal Variation of Summer Lightning over the Floirida Peninsula

Autor: Maier, Launa M. LM, Krider, E. Philip EK, Maier, Michael W. MM
Zdroj: Monthly Weather Review; June 1984, Vol. 112 Issue: 6 p1134-1140, 7p
Abstrakt: Data derived from a large network of electric field mills have been used to determine the average diurnal variation of lightning in a Florida seacoast environment. These data were obtained at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) during the summers of 1976–78 and 1980 and they show a peak in lightning activity between the hours of 2000 and 2100 GMT or about 3 hours after local solar noon. When the statistics of lightning am compared with the statisfies or thunder on the same day, good agreement is round between the start times and the times of peak activity; however, the thunder stop times tend to Rag the lightning by 1 to 2 hours.
Databáze: Supplemental Index