Browsing by Author "Fabró Tàpia, Ferran"
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A simultaneous observation of lightning by ASIM, Colombia-Lightning Mapping Array, GLM, and ISS-LIS
Montañá Puig, Juan; López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Morales Rodríguez, Carlos Augusto; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Pineda, Nicolau; Navarro González, Javier; Reglero, Víctor; Neubert, Torsten; Chanrion, Olivier; Goodman, Steven J.; Østgaard, Nikolai; Ladino Rincón, Alfonso; Romero Durán, David; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Horta Bernús, Ricard; Freijo Álvarez, Modesto (2021-02-17)
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Open AccessThe Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the International Space Station (ISS) provides optical radiances and images of lightning flashes in several spectral bands. This work presents a lightning flash simultaneously ... -
Analysis of energetic radiation associated with thunderstorms in the Ebro delta region in Spain
Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Montañá Puig, Juan; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Argemí Ribera, Oriol; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Romero Durán, David; Soula, Serge (2016-08-25)
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Open AccessThe analysis of high-energy background radiation (0.1 – 2 MeV) enhancements during eight winter thunderstorms and ¿ve summer storms in the Ebro delta region in the northeast of Spain is presented. For the ¿rst time, ... -
Analysis of global Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes distribution and special focus on AGILE detections over South America
Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Montañá Puig, Juan; Marisaldi, Martino; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Fuschino, Fabio (2015-03-01)
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Open AccessGlobal distribution of the Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) detected by AGILE and RHESSI for the period from March 2009 to July 2012 has been analysed. A fourth TGF production region has been distinguished over the ... -
Análisis de la actividad de rayos y de tormentas relacionadas con la producción de rayos gamma terrestres
Fabró Tàpia, Ferran (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-03-05)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessTerrestrial Gamma ray Flashes (TGFs) have been known since 20 years ago, but since the first moment of the discovery it was clear that they were related to lightning and thunderstorms. The latest studies revealed that TGFs ... -
Basic lightning flash properties derived from lightning mapping array data
Montañá Puig, Juan; Pineda Ruegg, Nicolau; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Argemí Ribera, Oriol; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Romero Durán, David; Aranguren Fino, Daniel (2016)
Conference report
Open AccessThe size and duration of lightning flashes are examined. Data from the Ebro Valley Laboratory Lightning Mapping Array is used as reference. Additional data from the VLF/LF LINET network is included. In the analysis, each ... -
Characteristics of lightning flashes generating dancing sprites above thunderstorms
Soula, Serge; Mlynarczyk, Janusz; Fullekrug, Martin; Georgis, Jean-Francois; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Montañá Puig, Juan; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran (2017)
Conference lecture
Open AccessDuring the night of October 29-30, 2013, a low-light video camera at Pic du Midi (2877 m) in the French Pyrénées, recorded TLEs above a very active storm over the Mediterranean Sea. The minimum cloud top temperature reached ... -
Comparison of global RHESSI and AGILE TGFs distributions and analysis of all AGILE satellite passes over South America. 2009-2012 period
Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Montañá Puig, Juan; Marisaldi, Martino (2014)
Conference report
Open AccessRHESSI and AGILE TGFs distributions in the period 2009-2012 are compared. Analysis of differences in geographical, hourly, monthly distributions of the three main TGF production regions in Earth due to differences in ... -
Comparison of high-speed optical observations of a lightning flash from space and the ground
Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Montañá Puig, Juan; Neubert, Torsten; Chanrion, Olivier; Ostgaard, N.; López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Reglero Velasco, Victor (2020-10)
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Open AccessWe analyze a nighttime negative cloud-to-ground lightning flash in Colombia observed from the ground with a high-speed camera at 5,000 images per second and from space by the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) ... -
Dancing sprites: detailed analysis of two case studies
Soula, Serge; Mlynarczyk, Janusz; Fullekrug, Martin; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Georgis, Jean-Francois; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Montañá Puig, Juan; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran (2017-03-27)
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Open AccessOn 29–30 October 2013, a low-light video camera installed at Pic du Midi (2877¿m), recorded transient luminous events above a very active storm over the Mediterranean Sea. The minimum cloud top temperature reached -73°C, ... -
Electromagnetic radiation of simulated mid-gap streamers
Montañá Puig, Juan; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran (Zakon Group, 2016)
Conference report
Open AccessElectromagnetic field from simulated double-headed mid-gap streamers is computed. The effect of the applied electric field is studied by considering electric fields higher than the conventional breakdown threshold ... -
Fair weather induced charges and currents on tall wind turbines and experiments with kites
López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Romero Durán, David (Zakon Group, 2016)
Conference report
Open AccessEarth’s atmospheric potential rapidly increases up to few tens of kilovolts below 200 m altitude. This potential drop will induce charge to tall objects at ground by virtue of electrostatic induction. In this work we ... -
Global distribution of winter lightning: a threat to wind turbines and aircraft
Montañá Puig, Juan; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; March Nomen, Víctor; Williams, Earle R.; Pineda Ruegg, Nicolau; Romero Durán, David; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Freijo Álvarez, Modesto (2016-01-01)
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Open AccessLightning is one of the major threats to multi-megawatt wind turbines and a concern for modern aircraft due to the use of lightweight composite materials. Both wind turbines and aircraft can initiate lightning, and very ... -
High altitude leaders mapped by the Colombia lightning mapping array
Montañá Puig, Juan; López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Romero Durán, David; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran (2016)
Conference report
Open AccessOn April 2015 a Lightning Mapping Array network (COL-LMA) was installed at the north of Colombia. This network provides 3D mapping of the development of lightning leaders. For the first time such network has been setup in ... -
Lightning flash properties derived from lightning mapping array data
Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Romero Durán, David; Pineda Ruegg, Nicolau; Argemí Ribera, Oriol (2014)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyin this paper size and duration of lightning flashes are examined. Data from the Ebro Valley Laboratory Lightning Mapping Array is used as reference. Additional data from the VLF/LF LINET network and meteorological radar ... -
Observation of intrinsically bright terrestrial gamma ray flashes fromthe Mediterranean basin
Gjesteland, T.; Ostgaard, N.; Laviola, S.; Miglietta, M.M.; Arnone, E.; Marisaldi, Martino; Fuschino, Fabio; Collier, B.; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Montañá Puig, Juan (2015-12-14)
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On the TGF/lightning ratio asymmetry
Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Williams, Earle R. (2019-05-14)
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Open AccessAfrica is one of the most productive lightning regions on Earth, yet it has a lower TGF-to-lightning ratio especially compared with Central America. In this paper we have analyzed the global distribution of different ... -
Registration of X-rays at 2500 m altitude in association with lightning flashes and thunderstorms
Montañá Puig, Juan; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Romero Durán, David; Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria; Hermoso Costa, Juan Ramón; Soula, Serge; Williams, Earle; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau (2014)
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Open AccessElectric fields and high-energy radiation of natural lightning measured at close range from a mountaintop tower are discussed. In none of the 12 negative cloud-to-ground upward flashes were X-rays observed. Also no energetic ... -
Spatio-temporal dimension of lightning flashes based on three-dimensional Lightning Mapping Array
López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Romero Durán, David (2017-10-15)
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Open Access3D mapping system like the LMA - Lightning Mapping Array - are a leap forward in lightning observation. LMA measurements has lead to an improvement on the analysis of the fine structure of lightning, allowing to characterize ... -
Sprites and elves as proxy of energetic lightning flashes in winter: what can we learn from mesospheric discharges for the protection of wind turbines?
Montañá Puig, Juan; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Hermoso, Blas (2011)
Conference report
Open AccessSprites and Elves are commonly observed in Europe, especially also in winter maritime storms. It is well known that sprites are related to large electric charge positive flashes and elves are related with high amplitude ... -
Tropical TGF paradox: a perspective from TRMM precipitation radar
Morales Rodríguez, Carlos Augusto; Montanya Puig, Joan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Fabró Tàpia, Ferran; López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto (2021-07-27)
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Open AccessThe Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) to lightning ratio, computed over the three tropical chimneys, presents a paradox: African thunderstorms produce the most lightning but yield the lowest fraction of TGFs when compared ...