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First Results from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Lighting Map Demonstration ProjectAn experimental portable lightning mapping array (LMA) operating in the upper VHF TV band (Channels 7-13; 174-216 MHz) was deployed in the Washington DC Metropolitan area during the summer 2006 to locate and monitor the overall lightning activity. The LMA network provides total lightning data to support lightning research as well as proxy data to benefit the development of applications for planned observing systems such as the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper. The portable LMA hardware is a compactly-housed, easily deployed version of the LMA stations installed North Alabama, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, which operate in the lower VHF TV band (Channels 2-6,54-88 MHz). Real-time LMA data products are provided to the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Sterling, VA to aid in their forecast and warning operations. Forecasters at WFO Sterling have already found the lightning data from the Washington DC demonstration network to be very useful in assessing the development of storm systems. On July 4,2006, data from the LMA aided forecasters as they monitored an area of convection that later developed into a line of severe storms that moved southward through the Washington DC metropolitan area across the Washington Mall. Additional applications of lightning mapping data in the Baltimore-Washington DC urban environment will be discussed.
Document ID
20070013795
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Goodman, Steven J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Blakeslee, Richard J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Hall, John
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Krehbiel, Paul
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Rison, Bill
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Zubrick, Steven
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2007
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2006 Fall AGU Meeting, Physics and Detection of Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: December 11, 2006
End Date: December 15, 2006
Sponsors: American Geophysical Union
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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