Brief Communication: An electrifying atmospheric river – understanding the thunderstorm event in Santa Barbara County during March 2019
Data sets
LIS/OTD Gridded Lightning Climatology Data Collection Version 2.3.2015 https://doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS-OTD/DATA311
NOAA GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Cloud and Moisture Imagery Products (CMIP) Band 13 https://doi.org/10.7289/V5736P36
MERRA-2 inst6_3d_ana_Np: 3d, 6-Hourly, Instantaneous, Pressure-Level, Analysis, Analyzed Meteorological Fields V5.12.4 https://doi.org/10.5067/A7S6XP56VZWS
NOAA Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Level 3 Products Hail Signatures and One-Hour Precipitation https://doi.org/10.7289/V5W9574V
Earth Networks Global Lightning Network https://www.earthnetworks.com/product/weather-sensors/lightning/
The NCEP climate forecast system version 2 (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/climate-forecast-system-version2-cfsv2) https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00823.1
AR Catalog: AR Reanalysis Databases https://ucla.app.box.com/v/ARcatalog
Model code and software
Code for AR Thunderstorm - March 2019 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3885717
MetPy: A Python Package for Meteorological Data https://doi.org/10.5065/D6WW7G29
Video supplement
GOES-17 ABI L2+ Cloud and Moisture Imagery Brightness Temperature: 4-6 March 2019 https://doi.org/10.5446/43737