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- Title
Electrical Characteristics of Thunderstorms Under Different Weather Conditions in the Kashmir Valley, India.
- Authors
Victor, Jeni N.; Afreen, Shaista; Siingh, Devendraa; Chandra, Sagarika; Singh, R. P.; Potdar, Swapnil S.; Bashir, Gowher; Kazhugasalamoorthy, S.; Kumar, R. Nirmal; Singh, Vatsala; Ahmad, Nissar
- Abstract
Surface measurements of the atmospheric electric field at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar (34° 13′ N, 74° 83′ E, 1585 m amsl) and Gulmarg (34° 05′ N, 74° 39′ E, 2617 m amsl) in the Kashmir Valley from March 2018 to August 2020 are analyzed to understand the behavior of the electric field during fair-weather, precipitation, snowfall, and fog conditions. The maximum thunderstorm activity observed in May, June, and July is attributed to the higher amount of moisture transport by western disturbances during May followed by the monsoon wind in June and July from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Based on the observations, in addition to the ordinary thunderstorms, several severe convective thunderclouds associated with the positive end-of-storm oscillations and inverted dipole structured clouds are also reported and explained. In addition, the observation of raindrop-induced field and periodic oscillations (90-min) in the potential gradient are explained in terms of the impact of the charge carried by the raindrops during precipitation, splashing on the ground and suspended snowflakes in snowfall episodes.
- Subjects
SRINAGAR (Jammu &; Kashmir, India); THUNDERSTORMS; WEATHER; ELECTRIC field strength; ELECTRIC fields; CUMULONIMBUS
- Publication
Pure & Applied Geophysics, 2023, Vol 180, Issue 3, p1185
- ISSN
0033-4553
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00024-022-03223-5