{"id":12059,"date":"2015-06-02T17:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T22:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=12059"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:54:56","slug":"rapid-flash-rate-changes-cell-algorithm-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/06\/02\/rapid-flash-rate-changes-cell-algorithm-mergers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Flash Rate Changes, Cell algorithm mergers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a case when lightning rate plot shows large fluctuations (fig 1) but seems to be of little use due the fact that data may not be necessarily showing updraft intensification and area broadening, but mainly a result of cells merging together.\u00a0 Initially ENI, identifies a rapid jump as the two identified cells are merged into 1, then a quick drop as the cells separate back into two different cells, than another jump as they merge back together (Fig 2 &#8211; gif loop).\u00a0 &#8211;Cattywampus<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/ENI_Flash-Rate2142.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12061\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/ENI_Flash-Rate2142.png\" alt=\"ENI_Flash Rate2142\" width=\"1577\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/ENI_Flash-Rate2142.png 1577w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/ENI_Flash-Rate2142-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/ENI_Flash-Rate2142-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/ENI_Flash-Rate2142-1024x549.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/ENI_Flash-Rate2142-500x268.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fig 1: Flash Rate Jumps<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/merger.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12060\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/merger.gif\" alt=\"merger\" width=\"1577\" height=\"841\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fig 2: Cell mergers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a case when lightning rate plot shows large fluctuations (fig 1) but seems to be of little use due the fact that data may not be necessarily showing updraft&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/06\/02\/rapid-flash-rate-changes-cell-algorithm-mergers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14221,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions\/14221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}