Extremes · Observations
New weather and climate research on extremes with observations as the main approach, one page per paper.
3 papers 1 peer-reviewed, 2 preprints Every summary checked against its paper
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ExtremesMeteosat-12 Lightning Imager detected 76.3 % of strikes on an instrumented wind turbine
Checked against direct current measurements at one wind turbine, the Meteosat-12 Lightning Imager saw most upward flashes, mainly through cloud-top light from the wider flash rather than the strike point.
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ExtremesAircraft saw a 9.6 K gravity wave over Typhoon Hinnamnor, three times ERA5's value
A rare aircraft flight over a supertyphoon measured a gravity wave far stronger than ERA5 shows, suggesting reanalysis and satellites underestimate these waves.
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ExtremesNew open dataset pairs pre-event optical and post-event radar images to map building damage
Bright is the first open, global dataset combining pre-disaster optical and post-disaster radar images of buildings, and models trained on it work well within known events but struggle on new ones.