Global lightning activity and the hiatus in global warming
| Autor: | Robert Boldi, Dennis E. Buechler, Earle Williams, Anirban Guha, Hugh J. Christian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Global temperature Thunder Physical reality Global warming Hiatus 01 natural sciences Lightning law.invention Geophysics Space and Planetary Science law Climatology 0103 physical sciences Radiosonde Environmental science Satellite 010303 astronomy & astrophysics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 189:27-34 |
| ISSN: | 1364-6826 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jastp.2019.03.011 |
| Popis: | Multiple records of global temperature contain periods of decadal length with flat or declining temperature trend, often termed a ‘hiatus’. Towards assessing the physical reality of two such periods (1940–1972 and 1998–2014), lightning data are examined. Lightning activity is of particular interest because on many different time scales it has been shown to be non-linearly dependent on temperature. During the earlier hiatus, declining trends in regional thunder days have been documented. During the more recent hiatus, lightning observations from the Lightning Imaging Sensor in space show no trend in flash rate. Surface-based, radiosonde-based and satellite-based estimates of global temperature have all been examined to support the veracity of the hiatus in global warming over the time interval of the satellite-based lightning record. Future measurements are needed to capture the total global lightning activity on a continuous basis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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