Journal
NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 1713-1717Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-1713-2009
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- EU [036852]
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In the framework of this paper, one-year of lightning data from the experimental network ZEUS operated by the National Observatory of Athens is compared to collocated data provided by the LINET detection network. The area of comparison is limited to a part of Central-Western Europe, where LINET data exhibits the highest data quality, permitting thus to be used as the validation dataset. The location error of ZEUS was calculated to be similar to 6.8 km, while the detection efficiency was similar to 25%, with a characteristic under-detection during nighttime. Moreover, the analysis revealed that ZEUS is also capable to detect not only cloud-to-ground but also intra-cloud strokes. Analysis of a specific case study revealed that the spatial distribution of ZEUS was very close to that of LINET, although the total number of strokes as seen by ZEUS is much lower than the one from LINET. The overall analysis permitted to assess the main characteristics of ZEUS network, information considered of paramount importance before the use of ZEUS data for a variety of observational and modeling work.
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