Characteristics of Dual-Polarimetric Radar Variables during Lightning Cessation: A case Study for 11 April 2008 Thunderstorm Xuanli Li, John Mecikalski,

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Characteristics of Dual-Polarimetric Radar Variables during Lightning Cessation: A case Study for 11 April 2008 Thunderstorm Xuanli Li, John Mecikalski, Larry Carey, Bill McCaul Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Alabama in Huntsville 1-3 December rd Annual GOES-R GLM Science Meeting

Motivation & Objectives  Guidance for lightning cessation  Only a few studies on lightning cessation: Understanding of thunderstorm electrification processes: considerable variability in storm behavior during decaying  Storm scale dual-pol characteristics for lightning cessation  Understand & document kinematic structure and microphysics distribution of decaying storm  Hypothesis: threshold values on related parameters for the end of charging processes

Previous Studies on Lightning Cessation  Hinson 1997: radar reflectivity and lightning cessation for 3 thunderstorms over KSC  Roeder and Glover 2005: log-linear curve in times between the last and second-last CG flashes  Wolf 2006: reverse of initiation (40 dBZ above -10C)‏  Marshall et al. 2009: surface electric field shows end of storm polarity oscillation  Stano et al. (2010): several methods with 15 lightning, 3 radar, and 15 sounding predictors for guidance: if a certain flash is the last flash.  Anderson (2010): difficult to draw a conclusion, contrary to expectations.

Thunderstorm on 11 April 2008‏  Manual selection: experiencing the cessation stage within the confident coverage of ARMOR and LMA

Last flash: UTC, 0.8 ~ 19.5 km Cell#1: Lightning Activity

Radar Reflectivity & Differential Reflectivity ‏ Cell: 35 km X 30 km Zh: below 40 dBZ Zdr: below 1.0 dB UTC 6 km (-10C)‏

Particle ID ‏ RF Graupel/hail existence at 0C ~ -20C level 6 km (-10C) Cross-section along N

Time Series of Precipitation Ice‏ UTC: mass 0.73x10 9 g (above -5C) 0.18x10 9 g (above -10C)‏

Cell# UTC: mass 3.81x10 9 g (above -5C) 0.4x10 9 g (above -10C)‏ UTC

Cell#3‏ 1730 UTC: mass 4.88x10 9 g (above -5C) 1.7x10 9 g (above -10C)‏ UTC

Linear Correlation between Precipitation Ice & Lightning Activity Above -5C Above -10C

Vertical Velocity: Cell#2 # of pixels w>3m/s 5 km (-5C level)‏ # of pixels w>5m/s

Vertical Velocity & Precipitation Ice Mass Mass of Precipitation Ice w>3m/s Mass of Precipitation Ice w>5m/s

Summary & Future Plan  Lightning activity is highly linearly related to precipitation ice, vertical velocity above -5C & -10C. Potentially have threshold values for lightning cessation.  A large amount of cases of different weather regimes to determine threshold values (~20 storm days, ~50 storms on list)‏  IC vs. CG might have different radar signature and thresholds  Cases for different weather regimes, single cell, super cell, multicell  Parameters: cell size, storm duration, storm intensity (mean/max reflectivity), flash rate, flash interval, flash density, satellite parameters  Dual-pol variables: Zdr, Kdp, ρhv,LDR