Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida

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Autores: Pérez-Invernón, Francisco J., Huntrieser, Heidi, Moris, Jose V.
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Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
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Palavra-chave:Lightning-ignited wildfires
Long-continuing-current lightning
Meteorology
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spelling Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and FloridaPérez-Invernón, Francisco J.Huntrieser, HeidiMoris, Jose V.Lightning-ignited wildfiresLong-continuing-current lightningMeteorologyThis article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Lightning is the main precursor of wildfires in Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida during the fire season. Forecasting the occurrence of Lightning-Ignited Wildfires (LIW) is an essential tool to reduce their impacts on the environment and society. Long-Continuing-Current (LCC) lightning is proposed to be the main precursor of LIW. The long-lasting continuing current phase of LCC lightning is that which is more likely to ignite vegetation. We investigated the meteorological conditions and vegetation type associated with LIW and LCC lightning flashes in Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida. We analyzed LIW between 2009 and 2013 and LCC lightning between 1998 and 2014 and combined lightning and meteorological data from a reanalysis data set. According to our results, LIW tend to occur during dry thunderstorms with a high surface temperature and a high temperature gradient between the 700 hPa and the 450 hPa vertical levels for high-based clouds. In turn, we obtained a high lightning-ignition efficiency in coniferous forests, such as the ponderosa pine in Arizona and New Mexico and the slash pine in Florida. We found that the meteorological conditions that favor fire ignition and spread are more significant in Florida than in Arizona and New Mexico, while the meteorological conditions that favor the occurrence of LIW in Arizona and New Mexico are closely related with the meteorological conditions that favor high lightning activity. In turn, our results indicate high atmospheric instability during the occurrence of LIW. Our findings suggest that LCC (>18 ms) lightning tends to occur in thunderstorms with high relative humidity and ice content in the clouds, and with low temperature in the entire troposphere. Additionally, a weak updraft in the lower troposphere and a strong one in the upper troposphere favor the occurrence of LCC (>18 ms) lightning. We found that the meteorological conditions that favor the occurrence of LCC (>18 ms) lightning are not necessarily the preferential meteorological conditions for LIW. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This research was supported by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research of Germany through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The APC was funded by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre. The authors would like to thank NASA for providing TRMM-LIS lightning data, Vaisala for providing NLDN lightning data, and ECMWF for providing the data from ERA5 forecasting models. FJPI acknowledges the sponsorship provided by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research of Germany through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. J.V.M. acknowledges the support from a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Government of Asturias (Spain) through FICYT (AYUD/2021/58534).With funding from the Spanish government through the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation SEV-2017-0709.Peer reviewedMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)European CommissionConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202220222022info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/285542reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//SEV-2017-0709http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire5040096Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2855422026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
title Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
spellingShingle Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
Pérez-Invernón, Francisco J.
Lightning-ignited wildfires
Long-continuing-current lightning
Meteorology
title_short Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
title_full Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
title_fullStr Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
title_full_unstemmed Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
title_sort Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Ignited Fires and Long-Continuing-Current Lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez-Invernón, Francisco J.
Huntrieser, Heidi
Moris, Jose V.
author Pérez-Invernón, Francisco J.
author_facet Pérez-Invernón, Francisco J.
Huntrieser, Heidi
Moris, Jose V.
author_role author
author2 Huntrieser, Heidi
Moris, Jose V.
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
European Commission
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Lightning-ignited wildfires
Long-continuing-current lightning
Meteorology
topic Lightning-ignited wildfires
Long-continuing-current lightning
Meteorology
description This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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