© 2019, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. Abstract: A modification of the commonly used Price–Rind scheme for lightning flash frequency (LFF), which can be used in calculations with large spatial and time steps, has been developed. ...

Cloud overlap parameter α was estimated on remote sensing data. This parameter is a measure of the relative weight of maximum (α = 1) and random (α = 0) overlap, and may be used to diagnose relative contribution of convective ...