Characterizing the Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Outbreaks in the Western United States


Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov1, Paul C Loikith2, Duane Edward Waliser3, Hugo Lee3 and John T Abatzoglou4, (1)University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States, (2)Portland State University, Geography, Portland, OR, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Merced, United States