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Characterisation and modelling of lightning strokes as point events in time and space
Uldis Zandovskis
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Department of Geography, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Davide Pigoli
Department of Mathematics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Bruce D. Malamud
Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
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This study looks at how lightning strikes happen over time and space, focusing on six storms in the UK during 2012 and 2015. By using real data, the research examines how often lightning strikes occur, how fast the storms move, and how far the strikes spread. The storms had different speeds (13–31 m s –1) and times between strikes (0.01 to 100 s), with strikes spreading up to 80 km. The study’s findings help create models to better characterise severe storms.
This study looks at how lightning strikes happen over time and space, focusing on six storms in...
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