{"id":4209,"date":"2017-06-02T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2018-01-29T14:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:23:27","slug":"evaluation-of-human-made-structures-impact-o-lightning-data-featured-as-research-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2017\/06\/evaluation-of-human-made-structures-impact-o-lightning-data-featured-as-research-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation Of Human-made Structures Impact On Lightning Data Featured As Research Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As cell phone towers continue to fill the landscape, evaluating the influence of such human-made structures and their impact on lightning data continues to be a priority for one research scientist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A recent article by Darrel Kingfield, a research scientist at the University of Oklahoma Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies working at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, was selected by the editors of Geophysical Research Letters to be features as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/antenna-towers-attract-additional-lightning-strikes.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research Spotlight<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on EOS.org. The paper, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2017GL073449\/full\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAntenna structures and cloud-to-ground lightning location: 1995-2015,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explores spatial analyses of cloud-to-ground lightning occurrences because of the rapid expansion of antenna towers across the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kristin Calhoun, an OU CIMMS research scientist also working at NOAA NSSL, contributed to the article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research Spotlights provide an overview and summary of research topics, providing context for a broader Earth, space and science audience, along with science journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Key points of Kingfield\u2019s research include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tower lightning can constitute a larger fraction of overall cloud-to-ground lightning measured in an area, with areas particularly near taller towers seeing a 500 percent increase in cloud-to-ground lightning over a small area. These anomalies have been underexplored in previous lightning climatologies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shorter cell phone towers appear to be more susceptible to lightning in winter storms because of different convective growth and charging mechanisms historically observed in winter storms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the full Research Spotlight, visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/antenna-towers-attract-additional-lightning-strikes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/antenna-towers-attract-additional-lightning-strikes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4210\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4210\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/TowerLightning_9June2007-400x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/TowerLightning_9June2007-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/TowerLightning_9June2007-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/TowerLightning_9June2007-800x600.png 800w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/TowerLightning_9June2007-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/TowerLightning_9June2007.png 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tower-initiated lightning observed from a Wichita, Kan., neighborhood on 9 June 2007. (Photo by Kiel L. Ortega\/ OU CIMMS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cell phone towers continue to fill the landscape, evaluating the influence of such human-made structures and their impact on lightning data continues to be a priority for one research scientist. 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