Re: Tropical Tropopause Layer
Posted by Mike_Doran on 8/17/2009, 12:55 pm
No question about the diurnal affect.

Think about this. IR/visible light heats up the ionosphere but doesn't increase the conductive elements of it.  It expands during the day.  But at night when the ionosphere contracts . . . if here is xray activity there is more ions--and so if forms a more conductive layer which will further compress and move depending on static fields.  This is all in the context of the Stanford paper which MEASURED couplings over a tropical storm.

Strike image associated with Isabel.



Stanford paper on the electrics of Isabel

http://nova.stanford.edu/~vlf/publications/2005-04.pdf

Diurnal changes in tropical storms is a well documented and accepted ocurrance.  What's interesting, however, is that the models have difficulting knowing exactly WHEN such daily changes might occur.  That is answered DEPENDING on where the lightning is and where the storm is in addition to what the ionosphere is doing.  Better models should take into consideration where exactly a storm is as well as the context of where lightning is in relation to the storm to pick up on these changes.
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