• DOI:10.1175/BAMS-87-8-1057
Corpus ID: 51044775

WHERE ARE THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ON EARTH

@article{Zipser2006WHEREAT,
  title={WHERE ARE THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ON EARTH},
  author={E. Zipser and D. Cecil and C. Liu and S. Nesbitt and David P. Yorty},
  journal={Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society},
  year={2006},
  volume={87},
  pages={1057-1071}
}

• E. Zipser, D. Cecil, +2 authors David P. Yorty
• Published 2006
• Environmental Science, Geography
• Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The instruments on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite have been observing storms as well as rainfall since December 1997. This paper shows the results of a systematic search through seven full years of the TRMM database to find indicators of uncommonly intense storms. These include strong (> 40 dBZ) radar echoes extending to great heights, high lightning flash rates, and very low brightness temperatures at 37 and 85 GHz. These are used as proxy variables, indicating… Expand

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