Journal
PROGRESS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGEROPEN
DOI: 10.1186/s40645-019-0309-7
Keywords
Lightning; Tropical cyclone; Aerosol
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- JSPS [17 K05659]
- RIKEN special post-doctoral fellow program [XXVII-008]
- Initiative on Promotion of Supercomputing for Young or Women Researchers, Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
- JSPS KAKENHI grant [JP18H05872]
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The impacts of aerosols on the charge distribution of hydrometeors and lightning flash density in a tropical cyclone (TC) were investigated using a meteorological model coupled with an explicit lightning model. The meteorological model successfully simulated the tripole structure of charge density distribution in a TC, as reported by previous studies. The impacts of aerosols were investigated through a sensitivity experiment with changing the aerosol number concentration. The tripole structure became unclear with increasing aerosol number concentrations. The positive charge distribution located in the lower layer was not seen, and raindrops with negative charge distribution reached the surface. As a result, the vertical structure of the charge density was dipolar in the polluted case. As the tripole structure shifted to dipole, the magnitude of the electric field tended to be large, and the flash number was large. By contrast, in the pristine case, the tripole structure was dominant, and the flash number was much smaller than in the polluted case.
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