J. Braun<\/p>\n
Here is a\u00a0paper\/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<\/a><\/em>.”\u00a0 Although geared\u00a0toward the aviation community, this inforamtion can be valuable to any WFO with forecasting\/warning duties in their CWA in which radar coverage is depleated, such as: 1) sparse at the edges with no good adjacent radar coverage. 2) Has terrain\/city\/etc blockage. 3) A coastal office with no radar coverage offshore, etc.\u00a04) Radar outages.<\/p>\n Relationship proxy determinations\u00a0have been sought <\/span>between cloud-to-ground lightning data and the radar fields of VIL and echo tops for use in the <\/span>event of degraded or lost radar data. A probability matching methodology\u00a0was <\/span>applied to lightning and radar data to develop the proxy relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It’s worth taking note of if for no other reason than\u00a0to aid in\u00a0those tricky warning situations when just a little bit more info is needed.\u00a0 “To issue, or to not issue…that is the question.” <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" J. Braun Here is a\u00a0paper\/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.”\u00a0 Although geared\u00a0toward the aviation community, this inforamtion can be valuable to any WFO with forecasting\/warning duties in their CWA in Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,52,26,29,39],"tags":[109,114,174,221,260,265],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-weather","category-convection","category-lightning","category-radar","category-severe-weather","category-watches-and-warnings","tag-echo-tops","tag-et","tag-lightning","tag-proxy","tag-vil","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6179,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/6179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}