{"id":2122,"date":"2020-04-21T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2020-04-21T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:47:56","slug":"lightning-modelling-for-the-research-of-forest-fire-ignition-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/2020\/04\/21\/lightning-modelling-for-the-research-of-forest-fire-ignition-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning modelling for the research of forest fire ignition in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"content\"><span class=\"text given-name\">Flavio Tiago <\/span><span class=\"text surname\">Couto, <\/span><span id=\"baf0005\" class=\"author-ref\"><\/span><\/span><a class=\"author size-m workspace-trigger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0169809519315005?via%3Dihub#!\" name=\"bau0005\"><\/a><span class=\"content\"><span class=\"text given-name\">Maksim <\/span><span class=\"text surname\">Iakunin,<\/span><span id=\"baf0005\" class=\"author-ref\"> <\/span><\/span><span class=\"content\"><span class=\"text given-name\">Rui <\/span><span class=\"text surname\">Salgado<\/span><span id=\"baf0010\" class=\"author-ref\">, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"content\"><span class=\"text given-name\">Paulo <\/span><span class=\"text surname\">Pinto, <\/span><span id=\"baf0015\" class=\"author-ref\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"content\"><span class=\"text given-name\">T\u00e2nia <\/span><span class=\"text surname\">Viegas, <\/span><span id=\"baf0015\" class=\"author-ref\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"content\"><span class=\"text given-name\">Jean-Pierre <\/span><span class=\"text surname\">Pinty<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lightning modelling for the research of forest fire ignition in Portugal<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"ab0005\" class=\"abstract author\" lang=\"en\">\n<div id=\"as0005\">\n<p id=\"sp0065\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The study aims to assess the applicability of the current Meso-NH electrical scheme (CELLS) in the investigation of forest fire ignition. Therefore, the challenge is to diagnose cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning at 1\u00a0km spatial resolution and, subsequently, preferred regions where Forest Fire Events (FFE) could be naturally ignited. The afternoon of 17th June 2017 has been considered for the study, since the dry thunderstorm environment configured a perfect scenario for natural ignition and evolution of some fires. The Pedr\u00f3g\u00e3o Grande wildfire ignited in this period and was the deadliest single fire event in the Portuguese history, with at least 60 people killed. The available observational data are used to validate the numerical results and to provide a brief characterization of the meteorological environment when jointly analysed with the simulation. In addition, cloud microphysics and cloud electrical structure are explored from the model results. The spatial distribution of the simulated CG lightning showed a good agreement with the lightning strokes obtained from the national lightning detection network. Overall, this paper introduces a possible application of the Meso-NH electrical scheme, namely the study of forest fire ignition by lightning strokes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.atmosres.2020.104993\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavio Tiago Couto, Maksim Iakunin, Rui Salgado, Paulo Pinto, T\u00e2nia Viegas, Jean-Pierre Pinty &nbsp; Lightning modelling for the research of forest fire ignition in Portugal The study aims to assess the applicability of the current Meso-NH electrical scheme (CELLS) in the investigation of forest fire ignition. Therefore, the challenge is to diagnose cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[310,314,311,313,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}