Analysis on thunderstorm and lightning climate characteristics in the northeast side of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
By using the thunderstorm observation data from 1980 to 2010 of Linxia station in the northeast side of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the lightning data from 2006 to 2010 in the middle area of Gansu, thunderstorm and lightning characteristics such as inter-annual variation, annual variation, diurnal variation, directions of first thunderstorm , cloud-to-ground lightning density, etc were analyzed. The results of this paper found the formation characteristics of thunderstorm and lightning:the thunderstorms and lightning mainly happened in the summer and afternoon; the cloud-to-ground lightning density is higher than the average densities in China. This research will be useful to prevention and mitigation of disasters.
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