Lightning‐Ignited Wildfires in the Western United States: Ignition Precipitation and Associated Environmental Conditions

Lightning‐Ignited Wildfires in the Western United States: Ignition Precipitation and Associated Environmental Conditions

Cloud‐to‐ground lightning with minimal rainfall (“dry” lightning) is a major wildfire ignition source in the western United States (WUS). Although dry lightning is commonly defined as occurring with

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Veröffentlicht in:Geophysical research letters 2023-08, Vol.50 (16), p.n/a
Hauptverfasser: Kalashnikov, Dmitri A., Abatzoglou, John T., Loikith, Paul C., Nauslar, Nicholas J., Bekris, Yianna, Singh, Deepti
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
climatology
Datasets
Environmental conditions
Fires
Forest & brush fires
geospatial
Hydrologic data
Ignition
Lightning
Precipitation
Precipitation data
Precipitation variations
Rainfall
remote sensing
Vegetation
Wildfires
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Zusammenfassung:Cloud‐to‐ground lightning with minimal rainfall (“dry” lightning) is a major wildfire ignition source in the western United States (WUS). Although dry lightning is commonly defined as occurring with
ISSN:0094-8276
1944-8007
DOI:10.1029/2023GL103785