Nature Geoscience reports our aerosol-lightning work	See full story in Nature Geoscience 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.
NASA Science Monthly Highlight	See full story at NASA GSFC Description: Same as above
JCET newsletter	See full story at JCET Description: Same as above
NASA monthly science highlight	See full story at NASA GSFC Description: TBD
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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