A storm safari in subtropical South America: Proyecto RELAMPAGO
- Nesbitt, Stephen William
- Salio, Paola Veronica
- Avila, Eldo Edgardo
- Bitzer, Phillip
- Carey, Lawrence
- Chandrasekar, V.
- Deierling, Wiebke
- Dominguez, Francina
- Dillon, María Eugenia
- Garcia Rodriguez, Carlos Marcelo
- Gochis, David
- Goodman, Steven
- Hence, Deanna A.
- Kosiba, Karen A.
- Kumjian, Matthew R.
- Lang, Timothy
- Luna, Lorena Medina
- Marquis, James
- Marshall, Robert
- McMurdie, Lynn A.
- de Lima Nascimento, Ernani
- Rasmussen, Kristen L.
- Roberts, Rita
- Rowe, Angela K.
- Ruiz, Juan Jose
- São Sabbas, Eliah F.M.T.
- Saulo, Andrea Celeste
- Schumacher, Russ S.
- Garcia Skabar, Yanina
- Machado, Luiz Augusto Toledo
- Trapp, Robert J.
- Varble, Adam
- Wilson, James
- Wurman, Joshua
- Zipser, Edward J.
- Auvieux Arias, Gabriel Ivan
- Bechis, Hernán
- Grover, Maxwell A.
DOIAbstract
This article provides an overview of the experimental design, execution, education and public outreach, data collection, and initial scientific results from the Remote Sensing of Electrification, Lightning, and Mesoscale/Microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) field campaign. RELAMPAGO was a major field campaign conducted in the Córdoba and Mendoza provinces in Argentina and western Rio Grande do Sul State in Brazil in 2018-19 that involved more than 200 scientists and students from the United States, Argentina, and Brazil. This campaign was motivated by the physical processes and societal impacts of deep convection that frequently initiates in this region, often along the complex terrain of the Sierras de Córdoba...
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