主办单位:中国气象局沈阳大气环境研究所
国际刊号:ISSN 1673-503X
国内刊号:CN 21-1531/P

Journal of Meteorology and Environment ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 91-96.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-503X.2020.05.012

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Characteristics of lightning activity and its response to the surface relative humidity in Heilongjiang province

Xiang-ling YUAN1(),Hong-xu MA2,Shi-ding CHEN3,Chun-fang LIU1   

  1. 1. Qiqihar Meteorological Service, Qiqihar 161006, China
    2. Service Center of Lightning Protection Technology in Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110166, China
    3. Hubei Public Meteorological Service Center, Wuhan 430074, China
  • Received:2019-10-16 Online:2020-10-30 Published:2020-09-09

Abstract:

The lightning location and daily mean surface relative humidity (RH) data in Heilongjiang province during 2006-2017 were used to analyze the relationships between the density and intensity of lightning and RH based on mathematical statistics, Pearson correlation analysis and GIS spatial analysis methods.The results indicate that the smaller or larger RH is disadvantageous to the generation of lightning activity.Specifically, the lightning hardly occurs if RH is less than 25%, and it is gradually easily triggered with the increase of RH between 25% and 77%.However, the lightning is decreasing with the increase of RH if the latter is larger than 79%.In addition, RH less than 77% has positive and negative correlation with density and intensity of lighting, respectively.Inversely, RH larger than 79% shows negative and positive correlation with density and intensity of lighting, respectively.The threshold of RH is between 77% and 79%.The interval of 70%-90% is the lightning-prone RH, where the lightning density is closely related to RH and the lightning tends to occur in clusters.

Key words: Lightning density, Lightning intensity, Relative humidity, Relationship

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