Effectiveness of monitoring the electrical state of clouds in the near zone by remote radiophysical instruments
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1The Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, St Petersburg, Russia
2Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pashan, India
pawar@tropmet.res.in
Keywords: radar, lightning direction finder, fluxmeter, thundercloud, hazardous weather forecast
Abstract
The results of field experiments with thunderclouds are analyzed for north-west of the Russian Federation and India. The state of the clouds was monitored by the C-band Doppler radar (Russia), the Blitzortung (Russia) and MLDN (India) lightning location network, and the ground fluxmeter system. It is shown that fluxmeters record a significantly greater number of “cloud -ground” lightning in the near zone than Blitzortung and MLDN.
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