期刊
REMOTE SENSING
卷 14, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs14122855
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Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; thunderstorm cloud; thunderstorm feature dataset; lightning; FY-2E satellite; WWLLN
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资金
- Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) Program [2019QZKK0104]
- Basic Research Fund of CAMS [2020Z009]
Thunderstorm activity over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) has important climatic effects and disaster impacts. The temporal and spatial distributions and cloud properties of thunderstorms over the QTP were analyzed using satellite data. Thunderstorms mainly occur from May to September and from 12 to 21 o'clock local time, with frequent centers in the southeast, south-central, and southwest regions. Some thunderstorms have strong convective cells, and extreme-lightning thunderstorms have larger cloud areas and more convective cells. The spatial distribution of thunderstorm activity differs from lightning activity in some regions.
Thunderstorm activity over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) has important climatic effects and disaster impacts. Using the thunderstorm feature dataset (TFD) established based on the black body temperature (TBB) and cloud classification (CLC) products of the Fengyun-2E (FY-2E) geostationary satellite, as well as the lightning data of the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), the temporal and spatial distributions and some cloud properties of the thunderstorms over the QTP were analyzed. Approximately 93.9% and 82.7% of thunderstorms over the QTP occur from May to September and from 12 to 21 o'clock local time, and the corresponding peaks are in August and at 14:00, respectively. There are three centers featuring frequent thunderstorms in the southeast, south-central, and southwest regions of the QTP. The average thunderstorm cloud area (the region with TBB <= -32 degrees C) is 1.8 x 10(4) km(2). Approximately 32.9% of thunderstorms have strong convective cells (SCCs) composed of areas with TBB <= -52 degrees C. The average number and area ratio of SCCs are 3.6 and 25.4%, respectively, and their spatial distribution is given. The average cloud area and the number and area ratio of SCCs of extreme-lightning thunderstorms (thunderstorms with the top 10% of lightning numbers) are approximately 30.0, 3.9, and 1.5 times those of normal thunderstorms. The spatial distribution of the thunderstorm activity is quite different from that of lightning activity given by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) and Optical Transient Detector (OTD) over the northeastern and southwestern QTP, which may mean that the convection intensity, cloud structure, and charge structure of the thunderstorms over the QTP are different between different regions and seasons.
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