Title :
Lightning activity behavior over Bogota - Colombia due to urban effect
Author :
Diego del Río;Camilo Younes;Juan Pulgarín
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia
Abstract :
This paper presents the lighting activity behavior over Bogota (Colombia) and its comparison with some adjacent regions due to urban effect. The study was developed using a methodology presented by Jvar and others in [1]. In order to achieve the goals, 6 years of lightning data from SID (one of the Colombian lighting location systems) and particulate matter PM10 data from the Air (Quality Network of Bogota - RMCAB were used. the results show an increase of lighting activity over Bogota on approximately 200% during the evaluated period.
Keywords :
"Lightning","Clouds","Heating","Monitoring"
Conference_Titel :
Lightning Protection (XIII SIPDA), 2015 International Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/SIPDA.2015.7339333
