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Don R. MacGorman
Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
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Evaluation of Lightning Flash Rate Parameterizations in a Cloud‐Resolved WRF‐Chem Simulation of the 29–30 May 2012 Oklahoma Severe Supercell System Observed During DC3
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
01 june 2024
Kristin Cummings, Kenneth E. Pickering, Mary C. Ba...
Eighteen lightning flash rate parameterization schemes (FRPSs) were investigated in a Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry...
A Comparison of Processing Methods for the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
01 july 2022
Vanna Chmielewski, Jessica Blair, Doug Kennedy, Do...
The Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array (OKLMA) has consisted of 17 Very High Frequency (VHF) sensors in two separate clusters separated by roughly 15...
Lightning and Electrification of Severe Storms: Advances in Understanding and in the Requisite Observational Technologies
THE 2021 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LECTURE I
atmospheric and space electricity | 15 december 2021
Donald R. MacGorman
For well over half a century, scientists have considered whether the large, long-lasting thunderstorms that produce tornadoes and large hail also prod...
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Novel radio, optical, and meteorological observations of a gigantic jet with extraordinary charge transfer
THUNDERSTORM EFFECTS IN THE NEAR-EARTH SPACE ENVIRONMENT I ORAL
atmospheric and space electricity | 14 december 2021
Levi Boggs, Douglas M. Mach, Eric C. Bruning, Ning...
Here we report on a unique negative gigantic jet discharge that had extraordinary charge transfer (300 C, twice the previous largest amount recorded)....
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Intraregional Comparisons of the Near‐Storm Environments of Storms Dominated by Frequent Positive Versus Negative Cloud‐to‐Ground Flashes
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
24 may 2021
Alexander Eddy, Donald R. MacGorman, Cameron R. Ho...
We gridded 11 years of cloud‐to‐ground (CG) flashes detected by the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network during the warm seas...
Lightning and Secondary Convection in the Anvil of the May 29, 2012 Oklahoma Supercell Storm Observed by DC3
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
28 january 2021
Elizabeth DiGangi, Conrad Ziegler, Donald R. MacGo...
A supercell thunderstorm formed as part of a cluster of severe storms near Kingfisher, Oklahoma on May 29, 2012 during the Deep Convective Clouds a...
Surprisingly Different Outcomes from Two Different Processing Methodologies for the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array
ADVANCES IN INSTRUMENTATION AND SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING METHODS FOR ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY APPLICATIONS I
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2020
Vanna Chmielewski, Donald R. MacGorman, Doug Kenne...
A Lightning Mapping Array typically consists of several Very High Frequency (VHF) sensors spaced 10s of kilometers apart in a single cluster to triang...
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Dynamic and Electrical Sensitivities to CCN Concentrations within the Simulated 29–30 May 2004 Geary, Oklahoma, Supercell Thunderstorm
THUNDERSTORM ELECTRIFICATION AND LIGHTNING METEOROLOGY IV
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2020
Jessica Blair, Donald R. MacGorman, Vanna Chmielew...
Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) are known to affect both the electrical and the dynamic evolution of storms, but the effects on storm electrification ...
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