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Global Positioning System (GPS) Precipitable Water in Forecasting Lightning at Spaceport Canaveral
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Weather and Forecasting
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April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Kehrer, Kristen; Graf, Brian; Roeder, William P
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ABSTRACT
This paper evaluates the use of precipitable water (PW) from the global positioning system (GPS) in lightning prediction. Additional independent verification of an earlier model is performed. This earlier model used binary logistic regression with the following four predictor variables optimally selected from a candidate list of 23 candidate predictors: the current precipitable water value for a given time of the day, the change in GPS PW over the past 9 h, the K index, and the electric field mill value. The K index was used as a measure of atmospheric stability, which, of the traditional stability measures, has been shown to work best in the area and season under study. This ...