1. Lightning location and Application Laboratory

2. Accessing lightning data LIS and STARNET

3. LIS Access http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/LISSearch.pl?type=HTML?

4. Select the Position

5. Select the area and period – Maximum 12 months

7. Click to download the data

9. STARNET htpp://www.starnet.iag.usp.br Register to get password

10. Data link

15. Use of Field Mill Understanding the Thunderstorm structure Thunderstorm approximation and Lightning activity

16. Santa Maria - Campaign

17. Lets simulate the Ez cd Desktop/TNOTE-Rayos cd E-Field./profiler_lin64 You can edit the file parametros.dat to modify the position of the charge centers and check how Ez changes with distance Try to see if you can find a configuration that resembles the previous image. This exercise will provide a hint to interpret electrical field measurements, because it will be possible to know if a thunderstorm is approaching and if it is severe or not.

18. Lightning signatures in Radars Cross-Sections Examples: Argentina – 18 November of 2009 São Paulo – 12 March of 2012

19. Play with the cross sections Mainly try to find differences in the radar reflectivity profiles with and without lightning. Run./profiler_lin64 Argentina cd Desktop/TNOTE-Rayos/Radar_STARNET São Paulo cd Desktop/TNOTE-Rayos/ CTH_LMA

22. Try to go to the storms and make cross sections where you have lightning and not. Compare the cross section to find signatures on Z (value and height) that is associated with Lightning activity. This will help you to forecast if a lightning is possible and depending on the signature you might even have hail.