Published October 1, 2019 | Version v1
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Data related to upward lightning events from the Säntis Tower (Switzerland) during the LMA summer campaign 2017

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya
  • 2. Lightning Research Group, Technical University of Catalonia
  • 3. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland
  • 4. University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland
  • 5. MeteoSwiss, Switzerland

Description

This dataset is associated with the paper titled "Meteorological aspects of self-initiated upward lightning at the Säntis tower (Switzerland)" accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres (19 September 2019)

The data includes lightning mapping array (LMA) data from 3 days of the summer of 2017 measurement campaign that was carried out in the surroundings of the Säntis Mountain (2,505 m ASL, Switzerland). The LMA was deployed to measure upward lightning activity at the Säntis tower. Additional data used in the analysis includes lightning currents from the instrumented Säntis Tower (EPFL and HEIG-VD); Polarimetric weather radar data from the Albis C-band radar (MeteoSwiss); Vertical temperature profiles from the COSMO model and; Wind data from the Säntis meteorological station (MeteoSwiss).

Notes

This work was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Project No. 200020_175594), the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 737033-LLR, and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) ESP2015-69909-C5-5-R and ESP2017-86263-C4-2-R

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References

  • Pineda et al., Meteorological aspects of self-initiated upward lightning at the Säntis tower (Switzerland)