The estimation of cloud-to-ground lightning discharges from satellite data

Author

Ershova, T.V. ; Gorbatenko, V.P. ; Dulzon, A.A.

Author_Institution

High Voltage Res. Inst., Tomsk Polytech. Univ., Russia

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

26 June-3 July 2004

Firstpage

207

Abstract

We review the data from observations of lightning obtained by the Microlab-1 satellite for summer season between 1995 to 1999. The Microlab-1 satellite equiped optical imaging sensor - Optical Transient Detector (OTD). The areas of investigations were southern Germany and Tomsk region (Russia). We compare the OTD data with Lightning Position And Tracking System (LPATS) reported cloud-to-ground strokes for southern Germany. We found the empirical relation between OTD data and LPATS data for flat parts in southern Germany and calculated the estimated cloud-to-ground strokes for Tomsk region.

Keywords

artificial satellites; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; clouds; image sensors; lightning; optical sensors; remote sensing; tracking; Lightning Position And Tracking System; Microlab-1 satellite; Optical Transient Detector; cloud-to-ground lightning discharges; optical imaging sensor; satellite data; Character generation; Density measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Fault location; Instruments; Lightning; Optical detectors; Optical distortion; Optical sensors; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Science and Technology, 2004. KORUS 2004. Proceedings. The 8th Russian-Korean International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8383-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KORUS.2004.1555322

Filename

1555322