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Navy Project at the CAPE in Florida (CapeEx19)

  • Dates: 22 July to 04 August 2019
  • Location: Cape Canaveral AFS/Kennedy Space Center/Titusville (KTIX), FL

Data Processing Summary

  • 07/24/2019: No PIP. processed CIP with reconstruction (2017 SODA2 code)
  • 07/25/2019: No PIP, processed CIP with reconstruction
  • 07/26/2019: No PIP, processed CIP with reconstruction
  • 07/29/2019: No PIP, processed CIP with reconstruction

Chain Aggregation

Radar Images from 2019

PHIPS Images

Cplot2 Images

Electric Field Vector Plots

NLDN Lightning Plots

  • 800 total lightning stokes detected
  • 605 total Cloud-to-cloud/Intra-Cloud lightning stokes detected
  • 195 total cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
  • 354 total negative lightning strokes detected
  • 446 total positive lightning strokes detected
  • 443 total positive cloud-to-cloud/intra-cloud lightning strokes detected
  • 3 total positive cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
  • 162 total negative cloud-to-cloud/intra-cloud lightning strokes detected
  • 192 total negative cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
  • Average Negative Stroke Magnitude = -21.06 kA
  • Average Positive Stroke Magnitude = 6.87 kA

  • 61 total lightning stokes detected
  • 47 total Cloud-to-cloud/Intra-Cloud lightning stokes detected
  • 14 total cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
  • 18 total negative lightning strokes detected
  • 43 total positive lightning strokes detected
  • 41 total positive cloud-to-cloud/intra-cloud lightning strokes detected
  • 2 total positive cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
  • 6 total negative cloud-to-cloud/intra-cloud lightning strokes detected
  • 12 total negative cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
  • Average Negative Stroke Magnitude = -10.41 kA
  • Average Positive Stroke Magnitude = 9.22 kA

LMA examples

These are 3 examples of lightning in the storm in which the Citation was flying around 16:00:00 UT on August 3 2019 (1st flight of the day).

Python Code

Presentations

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