2024

PAPERS

1. Sola, G., López, J. A., Montanyà, J., Pineda, N., & Williams, E. R. (2024). Recurrent lightning spots: Where lightning strikes more than twice. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD040098. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040098

2. Montanyà, J., P. Fontanes, M. Arcanjo, M. Urbani, E.R. Williams, D. Romero, R. Horta, J. López, O. van der Velde, N. Pineda, E. Ortiz (2024), Small-scale experimental simulation of lightning using vertical wires deployed by drones in the atmosphere: on the land and sea lightning peak current asymmetry, Electric Power Systems Research, 231, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110281.

3. van der Velde, O.A., Navarro-González, J., Fabró, F. et al. (2024) Imaging of 3 bright terrestrial gamma-ray flashes by the atmosphere-space interactions monitor and their parent thunderstorms, Sci Rep 14, 6946. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57229-1.

4. Roncancio, J. A., Montanyà, J., López, J. A., Urbani, M., van der Velde, O. A., & Arcanjo, M. (2024). Ground-based observations of 337 nm and 777 nm optical emissions produced by lightning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2024JD040836. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD040836

5. I. Bjørge-Engeland, N. Østgaard, D. Sarria, M. Marisaldi, A. Mezentsev, A. Fuglestad, N. Lehtinen, J. E. Grove, D. Shy, T. Lang, M. Quick, H. Christian, C. Schultz, R. Blakeslee, I. Adams, R. Kroodsma, G. Heymsfield, K. Ullaland, S. Yang, B. Hasan Qureshi, J. Søndergaard, B. Husa, D. Walker, M. Bateman, D. Mach, P. Bitzer, M. Fullekrug, M. Cohen, M. Stanley, S. Cummer, J. Montanya, M. Pazos, C. Velosa, O. van der Velde, Y. Pu, P. Krehbiel, J. A. Roncancio, J. A. Lopez, M. Urbani, A. Santos, T. Neubert, F. Gordillo-Vazquez (2024), Evidence of a New Population of Weak Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes Observed From Aircraft Altitude, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110395. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110395

6. N. Østgaard, A. Mezentsev, M. Marisaldi, J. E. Grove, M. Quick, H. Christian, S. Cummer, M. Pazos, Y. Pu, M. Stanley, D. Sarria, T. Lang, C. Schultz, R. Blakeslee, I. Adams, R. Kroodsma, G. Heymsfield, N. Lehtinen, K. Ullaland, S. Yang, B. Hasan Qureshi, J. Søndergaard, B. Husa, D. Walker, D. Shy, M. Bateman, P. Bitzer, M. Fullekrug, M. Cohen, J. Montanya, C. Younes, O. van der Velde, P. Krehbiel, J. A. Roncancio, J. A. Lopez, M. Urbani, A. Santos & D. Mach. et al. (2024), Flickering gamma-ray flashes, the missing link between gamma glows and TGFs. Nature 634, 53–56 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07893-0    Direct link

7. Marisaldi, N. Østgaard, A. Mezentsev, T. Lang, J. E. Grove, D. Shy, G. M. Heymsfield, P. Krehbiel, R. J. Thomas, M. Stanley, D. Sarria, C. Schultz, R. Blakeslee, M. G. Quick, H. Christian, I. Adams, R. Kroodsma, N. Lehtinen, K. Ullaland, S. Yang, B. Hasan Qureshi, J. Søndergaard, B. Husa, D. Walker, M. Bateman, D. Mach, S. Cummer, M. Pazos, Y. Pu, P. Bitzer, M. Fullekrug, M. Cohen, J. Montanya, C. Younes, O. van der Velde, J. A. Roncancio, J. A. Lopez, M. Urbani & A. Santos (2024). Highly dynamic gamma-ray emissions are common in tropical thunderclouds. Nature 634, 57-60; doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07936-6    direct link

8. Pineda, N.,  O. Rodríguez, E. Casellas, J. Bech, J. Montanyà (2024), Meteorological factors associated with dry thunderstorms and simultaneous lightning-ignited wildfires: the 15 June 2022 outbreak in Catalonia, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 359 (2024) 110268,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110268  direct link

9. Roncancio, J. Montanyà, J. López, M. Urbani, O. van der Velde (2024, official: 2025), Investigation of GLM detections of negative continuing currents observed by high-speed video and narrow-band 777 nm photometer, Electric Power Systems Research, 239, 111250, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2024.11125   

CONFERENCES

1. van der Velde, O., N. Pineda, J. Montanya, D. Romero, J. López, B. Viticchiè, T. Pucik: Thunderstorm flash rates with the Meteosat Lightning Imager (MTG-LI) compared to the Ebro Lightning Mapping Array. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C. 9-13 Dec 2024, poster

2. van der Velde, O., Romero, D., López, J., Montanyà, J., Pineda, N., and Fabró, F.: New visualization and analysis tools for 3D Lightning Mapping Array data, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-978, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-978, 2024, poster.

3. van der Velde, O. Visualization and analysis of 3D Lightning Mapping Array data. JuliaCon 2024, 9-12 July 2024, Eindhoven, Netherlands, oral.

4. van der Velde, O., Romero, D., López, J., Montanyà, J., and Pineda, N.: eLMA: Supercells over the Upgraded Ebro 3D Lightning Mapping Array and High-speed Observations of Lightning in the Near-Ultraviolet, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-20630, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20630, 2024, oral.

5. van der Velde, O., Montanyà, J., López, J., and Mansell, T.: Microphysical evolution of thunderstorms in tropical environments associated with gigantic jet production using CM1, 11th European Conference on Severe Storms, Bucharest, Romania, 8–12 May 2023, ECSS2023-165, https://doi.org/10.5194/ecss2023-165, 2023, oral.

6. van der Velde, O. and the ESTOFEX Team: Evaluation of ESTOFEX convective outlooks from 2007 to 2021. Part 1: forecasters and regional performance of lightning predictions, 11th European Conference on Severe Storms, Bucharest, Romania, 8–12 May 2023, ECSS2023-158, https://doi.org/10.5194/ecss2023-158, 2023, poster

7. Eduard Martin, Joan Montanyà, Jesús A. López, Oscar van der Velde, Nicolau Pineda, D. Romero, Carlos A. Morales (2024), Analysis of the Ebro Lightning Mapping Array detections of aircraft in flight producing electrical discharges, International Conference on Lightning & Static Electricity (ICOLSE 2024), 9 -12, September 2024, Campinas, Brazil.

8. Carmen Guerra-Garci1, Nicolas Gomez-Vega, Fayleon Lin,Joan Montanya, Victor Guerra Calvo, Vincent Andraud, Rafael Sousa Martins (2024), Wind Tunnel Experiments of Long Arcs in Crossflow, International Conference on Lightning & Static Electricity (ICOLSE 2024), 9 -12, September 2024, Campinas, Brazil.

9. Sola, G., Jesús Alberto López, Joan Montanyà and Nicolau Pineda (2024), Recurrent Lightning Spots with Different Lightning Return Period, 37th International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP 2024), pp. 249-252, 1-7 September, 2024, Dresden, Germany.

10. Ardila, S., Jesús López, Glòria Solà and Joan Montanyà (2024), Tall Structures as Recurrent Lightning Spots in the inner tropics, 37th International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP 2024), pp. 790-797, 1-7 September, 2024, Dresden, Germany.

11. Montanyà, J.,  A.R. Jara-Jiménez, O. van der Velde, J.A. López, N. Pineda, J. López, S. Vogel, S.F. Madsen, S. M. Steiger, E. C. Bruning, V. C. Chmielewski, J. Trostel and J.Losego (2024), Upward flashes to wind turbines during winter observed from space by ISS-LIS and GLM, 37th International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP 2024), pp. 1026-1031, 1-7 September, 2024, Dresden, Germany

12. Montanyà, J. et al., (2024), An analysis of the MTG Lightning Imager performance with the Ebro LMA and ASIM, GLM Sicence Meeting 2024, 24-26 September 2024, Huntsville (and online), USA.