Title :
Processing of lightning data in the territory of Albania
Author :
Hobdari, Nako D. ; Labenishti, Luan H. ; Bauta, Agron Y. ; Voshtina, Elio H. ; Londo, Leonidha Q.
Author_Institution :
Polytech. Univ. of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
Abstract :
For the evaluation of lightning discharge activity in Albania, we have “Maps of thunderstorms days per year” and “Density maps of lightning discharge per year”, based on data from seven meteorological stations, with data measured during five years in the interval 1951-1960. Since this period there were no measurements. The measurement had many inaccuracies and does not answer all the territory of Albania. The installation of the lightning detector gave us the opportunity to obtain data for all territory of Albania with very high accuracy. The size of the map of the Republic of Albania and the placement in Tirana, in the center of the territory, enable the necessary data to the detector to be those with the radius of no more than 200km, which is within the acceptable accuracy of the detector. Detector data give us the opportunity to build the above maps with higher accuracy.
Keywords :
electric sensing devices; lightning; thunderstorms; Republic of Albania; Tirana; lightning data processing; lightning detector installation; lightning discharge activity evaluation; measurement inaccuracy; meteorological station; time 5 year; Detector; LD-250; Lightning Discharge; Stormtracker; TOA;
Conference_Titel :
Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion (MEDPOWER 2012), 8th Mediterranean Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cagliari
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-715-1
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2012.2035