Thunderstorm characteristics in Nepal during the pre-monsoon season

A training period of lightning location data usage has been carried out in Nepal during the pre-monsoon season April–June 2012.

Development cooperation projects of the Finnish Meteorological Institute are taking place all over the world. The main purpose of the projects is to develop the weather and climate know-how and weather observation activities in developing countries.

Lightning location data from Nepal

A training period of lightning location data usage has been carried out in Nepal during the pre-monsoon season April–June 2012. The training was one part of a Finnish–Nepalese Project(FNEP) between the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology of Nepal (DHM) and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). FNEP aimed for the development of operational meteorological readiness in a developing country such as Nepal. The lightning location training included the introduction to lightning location techniques and principles and the actual hands-on training for the operational DHM forecasters. The lightning location system used was the Vaisala long range Global Lightning Dataset 360 (GLD360), which has practically a global coverage. During the three months of training, a dataset of Nepalese lightning was also collected, indicating the pre-monsoon thunderstorm characteristics of Nepal.

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Researcher Antti Mäkelätel. +358 50 3011 988antti.makela@fmi.fi

Antti Mäkelä, Rajendra Shrestha, Ramchandra Karki, Thunderstorm characteristics in Nepal during the pre-monsoon season 2012, Atmospheric Research, Volume 137, February 2014, Pages 91-99, ISSN 0169-8095, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.09.012.

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