Nature Geoscience reports our aerosol-lightning work

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Description: Observations from satellite confirm previous in-situ, ground and air-borne measurements that lightning prefers land areas despite much more convective activity over the ocean. Two hypotheses are proposed to address this apparent paradox. Our study highlights the importance of aerosol concentrations. When aerosols are added to a maritime cloud system we observe strong increase in lightning activity. It can be explained by cloud microphysics changes induced by aerosols. Specifically, polluted clouds are invigorated and cloud particles have more chance to collide and produce charge separation, which results in lightning increase.


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Scientists I work with (come back for more updates):


Lorraine Remer , Senior Scientist

Lazaros Oreopoulos , Senior Scientist

Ken Pickering, Senior Scientist


Zhanqing Li, Proffessor

Hongbin Yu , Research Scientist

Dale Allen , Research Scientist


Jiwen Fan, Scientist

Hailong Wang , Scientist


Eric Wilcox, Assistant Research Professor


Vanderlei Martins, Professor

Zhibo Zhang, Assistant Professor


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