Category Archives: Lightning

Quetions and answers concerned with Thunderstorms and Lightning.

NCC monitoring severe weather during the nighttime

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Jorel Torres

Monitoring severe weather during the nighttime can be challenging since GOES-16/17 is limited to infrared imagery during the overnight hours. In complement to geostationary data sets, polar-orbiting satellite data can be utilized, specifically the Near-Constant Contrast (NCC) product. For unfamiliar … Continue reading →

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Lightning as Proxy for VIL and/or Echo Tops (ET)

Posted on May 6, 2008 by admin

J. Braun Here is a paper/discussion presented at this year’s 13th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology by Haig Iskenderian (from MIT) titled, “Cloud-to-Ground Lightning as a Proxy for Nowcasts of VIL and Echo Tops.”  Although geared toward the aviation community, … Continue reading →

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