Browsing by Author "Germann, Urs"

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    • Analysis of the lightning production of convective cells 

      Figueras i Ventura, Jordi; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Besic, Nikola; Grazioli, Jacopo; Hering, Alessandro; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Romero Durán, David; Sunjerga, A.; Mostajabi, A.; Azadifar, M.; Rubinstein, M.; Montañá Puig, Juan; Germann, Urs; Rachidi-Haeri, Farhad (2019-10-22)
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      This paper presents an analysis of the lightning production of convective cells. The cells were detected by the MeteoSwiss Thunderstorms Radar Tracking (TRT) algorithm in the course of a lightning measurement campaign that ...

    • Ensemble radar precipitation estimation for nowcasting and hydrology in the Alps 

      Germann, Urs; Hering, Alessandro; Berenguer Ferrer, Marc; Sempere Torres, Daniel; Salvadè, Georges (2006)
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      This paper explores the novel idea of generating ensables of radar precipitation estimates.

    • Improving risk management for flash floods and debris flow events 

      Uijlenhoet, Remko; Sempere Torres, Daniel; Velasco Montes, David; Berenguer Ferrer, Marc; Bateman Pinzón, Allen; Germann, Urs; Thielen, Jutta; Beven, K.; Zappa, Massimiliano; Demarchi, M.; Bertoli, M.; Gaechter, M.; Velasco, E.; Wittwer, C.; Sánchez-Diezma Guijarro, Rafael; Vilaclara, E.; Pegram, Geoffrey; Papa, M.; Escaler, I.; Lombardi, G.; Santiago, A.; Zawadzki, Isztar (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010)
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    • LMA observations of upward lightning flashes at the Säntis Tower initiated by nearby lightning activity 

      Sunjerga, A.; Rubinstein, M.; Pineda, Nicolau; Mostajabi, A.; Azadifar, M.; Romero Durán, David; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Montañá Puig, Juan; Figueras i Ventura, Jordi; Besic, Nikola; Grazioli, Jacopo; Hering, Alessandro; Germann, Urs; Diendorfer, Gerhard; Rachidi-Haeri, Farhad (2020-04)
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      We present in this paper lightning current measurements, LMA (Lightning Mapping Array) data and fast antenna electric fields associated with upward flashes observed at the Säntis Tower during summer of 2017. The LMA network ...

    • Meteorological aspects of self-initiated upward lightning at the Säntis Tower (Switzerland) 

      Pineda, Nicolau; Figueras i Ventura, Jordi; Romero Durán, David; Mostajabi, A.; Azadifar, M.; Sunjerga, A.; Rachidi-Haeri, Farhad; Rubinstein, M.; Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Altube Vázquez, Patricia; Besic, Nikola; Grazioli, Jacopo; Germann, Urs; Williams, Earle R. (2019-12-26)
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      Interest in exploring the meteorological conditions favoring upward lightning from tall man-made structures has grown in recent years, largely due to the worldwide expansion of wind energy. To this end, instrumented towers ...

    • Polarimetric radar characteristics of lightning initiation and propagating channels 

      Figueras i Ventura, Jordi; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; Besic, Nikola; Grazioli, Jacopo; Hering, Alessandro; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Romero Durán, David; Sunjerga, A.; Mostajabi, A.; Azadifar, M.; Rubinstein, M.; Montañá Puig, Juan; Germann, Urs; Rachidi-Haeri, Farhad (2019-05-27)
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      In this paper we present an analysis of a large dataset of lightning and polarimetric weather radar data collected in the course of a lightning measurement campaign that took place in the summer of 2017 in the area surrounding ...

    • REAL - Ensemble radar precipitation estimation for hydrology in a mountainous region 

      Germann, Urs; Berenguer Ferrer, Marc; Sempere Torres, Daniel; Zappa, Massimiliano (2009-02-06)
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      An elegant solution to characterise the residual errors in radar precipitation estimates is to generate an ensemble of precipitation fields. The paper proposes a radar ensemble generator designed for usage in the Alps using ...