Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/ascmo-6-79-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/ascmo-6-79-2020
23 Jul 2020
 | 23 Jul 2020

A statistical approach to fast nowcasting of lightning potential fields

Joshua North, Zofia Stanley, William Kleiber, Wiebke Deierling, Eric Gilleland, and Matthias Steiner

Model code and software

nowcasting Joshua North https://github.com/jsnowynorth/nowcasting

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Short summary
Very short-term forecasting, called nowcasting, is used to monitor storms that pose a significant threat to people and infrastructure. These threats could include lightning strikes, hail, heavy precipitation, strong winds, and possible tornados. This paper proposes a fast approach to nowcasting lightning threats using simple statistical methods. The proposed model results in fast nowcasts that are more accurate than a competitive, computationally expensive, approach.