Thunderstorms near the North Pole

Alena Popykina; Nikolay Ilin; Maria Shatalina; Colin Price; Fedor Sarafanov; Andrey Terentev; Andrey Kurkin

doi:10.3390/atmos15030310

Thunderstorms near the North Pole

Alena Popykina^*, Nikolay Ilin, Maria Shatalina, Colin Price, Fedor Sarafanov, Andrey Terentev, Andrey Kurkin^*

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School of the Environment and Earth Sciences

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been a notable surge in lightning events within the Arctic region. This is possibly due to the ongoing trend of global warming that is particularly pronounced in the Arctic. This study focuses on instances of rare lightning activity in the proximity to the North Pole in the last decade. We hypothesize that these occurrences are linked to augmented land heating in Eurasia rather than solely due to the increasing temperatures in the Arctic region. This assertion is substantiated by model simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting model.

Original language	English
Article number	310
Journal	ATMOSPHERE
Volume	15
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15030310
State	Published - Mar 2024

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NNSTU Development Program
Russian Academy of Sciences	FFUF-2022-0008

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Arctic region
climate change
lightning

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