What is lightning
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Transcript What is lightning
Météorage
Lightning data
for flood monitoring
Marc Bonnet
V.P. International
October, 2011
Agenda
► Company overview
► Lightning data
Lightning phenomenon and detection principles
Lightning data in Poland
► Applications for flood management
Tools
Examples of use in Civil Security applications
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► A private French Company created in 1987
► A subsidiary of Météo France (since 2001)
►Our Know-how
Operation of the French Lightning Detection Network,
Development of lightning operating systems (CATS) and
application software (Observation),
Production and marketing of lightning services for end-users in
Europe (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, U.K.)
Engineering for Lightning Detection Network
Météorage is granted with the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Standard.
Based in Pau - France
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What is lightning ?
From Cloud …
… to Electricity
A transient electrical
discharge
Typically occurs in
thunderstorms, but
occasionally in
snowstorms, sandstorms,
and volcanoes
Types of Lightning
•Cloud-to-ground
•Intra-Cloud
70% of lightning remains in
cloud
A complete lightning
discharge is known as a
flash
A flash is composed of
multiple strokes, each one
being producing a charge
transfer to ground
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Benefits of ground based
lightning detection networks
National coverage : the full information is available
Optic
Acoustic
anywhere within the territory
Data Quality: an homogeneous level of quality
Reliability : the network is supervised and maintained
24h/24 and 7d/7
Network effect when extending the coverage
Electro-
magnetic
Lightning information :
Impact information (date, position, intensity, polarity,
accuracy)
Statistics from a National Data Base
Centrally operated and nationally available enduser products:
Electrostatic
Real time information
Archived data
No investment, no maintenance
Provide a different measure
A complement to radar, satellite or rain gauges 5
Lightning in Poland
Key points of lightning detection in Poland
► PERUN system (9 sensors) works operationally
from 2002
► Data is archived continuously
► Data is used by synoptic, aviation, power lines
► 2010 upgrade of visualization software
► 2011 network and system upgrade preparations
► System is owned by IMGW
► IMGW has its own service crew maintaining and
administrating the system
Lightning data characteristics
► PERUN system detects cloud-to-ground and
intra-cloud data
► Information about polarity (positive, negative)
and about current intensity in discharge
channel is available
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Lightning in Poland
►Lightning density map in Poland, for 2010
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IMGW’s projects for lightning data
► Institute of Meteorology and Water Management National Research Institute
is the largest provider of hydro - meteorological data, products and services
on the Polish market
► IMGW has been developing its data and products for remote sensing of
lightning using PERUN system for 10 years
► Using many years of experience and vast knowledge on meteorology,
IMGW is looking for possibilities of wider use of lightning data in other sectors
of the economy than currently exploited
► The IMGW's current goals are:
public awareness of the significance of information on lightning data
and possible consequences of lightnings
development of an early warning system of impending lightning
hazard
improvement of distribution system of lightning data and warnings
reach the largest possible number of users
► Currently IMGW plans to cooperate in the development of appropriate tool
to achieve those goals
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Real time applications
Observation Jobs: An end user software designed to display,
process and analyze lightning events in real time or from
recorded data.
Lightning Alarm: A service designed to warn the end user when a
storm approaches his region and help him apply ad hoc
procedures
Area under surveillance
Display
Message
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Civil Security applications
Flood crisis management:
-Lightning is an early indicator for heavy rains
-Lightning provides a first level of alarm
-Good correlation with other type of data (radar,…)
Lightning-rain
correlation
Document by Prédict
Montpellier
Forest fire monitoring:
Lightning information allows to prevent
fire extension
Planning for crew management
Site survey planification
Lightning
layer on
customer
GIS
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Thank you for your attention,
question ?
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