Lightning Research Group. LRG

2019

PAPERS

  1. Williams E. and J. Montanyà (2019), A closer look at lightning reveals needle-like structures, Nature 568, 319-320, doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01178-7 (link to publication)
  2. López J. A.,  J. Montanyà,  O. A. van der Velde,  N. Pineda,  A. Salvador, D. Romero,  D. Aranguren and  J. Taborda (2019), Charge structure of two tropical thunderstorms in Colombia, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029188
  3. Fabró F.,  J. Montanyà,  O. A. van der Velde,  N. Pineda, E. Williams (2019), On the TGF/lightning ratio asymmetry, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi.org/10.1029/2018JD030075.
  4. Figueras i Ventura, J., Pineda, N., Besic, N., Grazioli, J., Hering, A., van der Velde, O. A., Romero, D., Sunjerga, A., Mostajabi, A., Azadifar, M., Rubinstein, M., Montanyà, J., Germann, U., and Rachidi, F.: Polarimetric radar characteristics of lightning initiation and propagating channels, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 2881-2911, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2881-2019, 2019. (link to publication)
  5. Figueras i Ventura, J., Pineda, N., Besic, N., Grazioli, J., Hering, A., van der Velde, O. A., Romero, D., Sunjerga, A., Mostajabi, A., Azadifar, M., Rubinstein, M., Montanyà, J., Germann, U., and Rachidi, F.: Analysis of the lightning production of convective cells, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 135,doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-135.
  6. van der Velde O., J. Montanyà, J. A. López and S. Cummer  (2019), Gigantic jet discharges evolve stepwise through the middle atmosphere, Nature Cummunications 10, 4350 (link to publication).
  7. C.Pavan,  P. Fontanes,  M. Urbani, N. C. Nguyen,  M. Martinez‐Sanchez , J. Peraire,  J. Montanya,  C. Guerra‐Garcia (2019), Aircraft Charging and its Influence on Triggered Lightning, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, DOI:  https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2019JD031245
  8. Pineda, N., Figueras i Ventura, J., Romero, D., Mostajabi, A., Azadifar, M., Sunjerga, A., et al. (2019), Meteorological aspects of self‐initiated upward lightning at the Säntis tower (Switzerland), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019; 124: 14162– 14183. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030834


CONFERENCES

  1.  O. van der Velde, J. Montanyà, J. López, F. Fabró, O. Chanrion, T. Neubert, O. van der Velde, J. Montanyà (2019), The Colombia campaign for gigantic jets of 2018 and the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) matched with ground-based observations of lightning, 9th International EISCAT Symposium 2019 and 46th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods,19th - 23rd August 2019, Oulu, Finland.
  2. Ferran Fabro, Reglero Victor, U, Joan Montanya, van der Velde Oscar, Javier Navarro-Gonzales, Paul Henry Connell and Jesús A. López (2019), Meteorological conditions of thunderstorms associated to TGFs detected by ASIM, AE41B-3161, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, USA.

  3.  Reglero Victor, Paul Henry Connell, Javier Navarro-Gonzales, Christopher J Eyles, Nikolai Østgaard, Torsten Neubert, Ferran Fabro, Joan Montanya, Andrew Mezentsev, Olivier Chanrion, Freddy Christiansen and Pavlo Kochkin (2019), Extreme TGF Imaging by ASIM, AE41A-08, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, USA.

  4. J. A. Lopez Trujillo, Joan Montanya, Ferran Fabro, Javier Navarro-Gonzales, Olivier Chanrion, van der Velde Oscar, Reglero Victor and Torsten Neubert, MMIA-ASIM observation of a lightning flash mapped by the Colombia Lightning Mapping Array, AE24A-10, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, USA.

  5. Serge Soula, Janusz Mlynarczyk, Andrea Pizzuti, Pedeboy Stéphane, Eric Gonneau, van der Velde Oscar, Joan Montanya, Martin Fullekrug, Alec Bennett, Daniel Boyer and Alain Cavaillou (2019), Observation and Analysis of Very Large and Luminous Sprites, AE31B-3100, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, USA.

  6. Joan Montanya, Nicolau Pineda, Jordi Figueras i Ventura, David Romero, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Mohammad Azadifar, Antonio Sunjerga, Farhad Rachidi, Marcos Rubinstein, van der Velde Oscar, Patricia Altube, Nikola Besic, Jacopo Grazioli1, Urs Germann and Earle Williams (2019), Meteorological conditions during self-initiated upward lightning at the Säntis tower (Switzerland), AE12A-02, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, USA.

  7. Nicolau Pineda, Patricia Altube, Tomeu Rigo, Carme Farnell, Joan Montanyà, Oscar van der Velde, Albert Salvador, Joan Bech, and Oriol Rodriguez (2019), Severe weather patterns of a tornadic event associated to a squall line in the western Mediterranean region, ECSS2019-114, 10th European Conference on Severe Storms, 4 – 8 November 2019, Kraków, Poland.

  8. Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanyà, Jesús López, Ferran Fabró, and Steven Cummer (2019), High speed video campaigns and meteorological conditions related to Gigantic Jets in Colombia, ECSS2019-211, 10th European Conference on Severe Storms, 4 – 8 November 2019, Kraków, Poland.

  9. Serge Soula, Nicolau Pineda, Joan Bech, Enric Casellas, Antoine Leroy, Jean-François Georgis, and Joan Montanyà, On the conditions for winter lightning occurrence at the Eagle Nest Tower (2,537 m asl, eastern Pyrenees) during the Cerdanya-2017 field experiment, EGU2019-16478, NH1.2/AS1.29, EGU General Assembly 2019, 7-12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.

  10. Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanyà, and Jesús López (2019), High-speed video observations of Gigantic Jets and negative sprites in Colombia, EGU2019-12020, NH1.2/AS1.29, EGU General Assembly 2019, 7-12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.

  11. J. Rodríguez-Ferreira, O. M. reyes, H. Ortega, E. Soto, G. Chaparro, L. M. Díaz, D. Amaranto, A. C. Pitta, T. Santos, E Acevedo, D. Garzón, J. Ramirez, L. Quiñones, H. Navarro, J. Montanyà, J. López, O. van der Velde, F. H. Herrera, C. A. Sosa, R. A. Martínez (2019), Towards Astronomy at Low Frequencies in Colombia, in proc. of the 6th Annual Science at Low Frequencies (SALF) Conference & MWA Meeting, 9-13 December 2019, Tempe (AZ), USA.