An Explicit Microphysics Thunderstorm Model

R. Solomon, C.M. Medaglia, C. Adamo, S. Dietrich, A. Mugnai, and U. Biader Ceipidor

Keywords

Thunderstorm, lightning, atmospheric modelling

Abstract

The authors present a brief description of a 1.5-dimensional thunderstorm model with a lightning parameterization that utilizes an explicit microphysical scheme to model lightning-producing clouds. The main intent of this work is to describe the basic microphysical and electrical properties of the model, with a small illustrative section to show how the model may be used to determine the electrical properties of clouds.

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