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Dennis J. Boccippio
Researcher at Marshall Space Flight Center
Publications - 56
Citations - 5690
Dennis J. Boccippio is an academic researcher from Marshall Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lightning & Thunderstorm. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 56 publications receiving 5346 citations. Previous affiliations of Dennis J. Boccippio include Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space by the Optical Transient Detector
Hugh J. Christian,Richard J. Blakeslee,Dennis J. Boccippio,William L. Boeck,Dennis E. Buechler,Kevin T. Driscoll,Steven J. Goodman,John Hall,William J. Koshak,Douglas M. Mach,M. F. Stewart +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the OTD measurements to construct lightning climatology maps that demonstrate the geographical and seasonal distribution of lightning activity for the globe, and found that lightning occurs mainly over land areas, with an average land/ocean ratio of 10:1.
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Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification
Earle Williams,Daniel Rosenfeld,N. Madden,John Gerlach,N. Gears,L. Atkinson,N. Dunnemann,G. Frostrom,M. Antonio,B. Biazon,R. Camargo,H. Franca,Andreia Maria da Anunciação Gomes,M. Lima,R. Machado,S. Manhaes,L. Nachtigall,H. Piva,W. Quintiliano,Luiz A. T. Machado,Paulo Artaxo,Gregory Roberts,Nilton O. Renno,Richard J. Blakeslee,J. Bailey,Dennis J. Boccippio,Alan K. Betts,David B. Wolff,Biswadev Roy,Jeffrey B. Halverson,Thomas M. Rickenbach,Jose D. Fuentes,E. Avelino +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, four distinct meteorological regimes in the Amazon basin have been examined to distinguish the contributions from boundary layer aerosol and convective available potential energy (CAPE) to continental cloud structure and electrification.
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Sprites, ELF Transients, and Positive Ground Strokes.
TL;DR: In two summertime mesoscale convective systems, mesospheric optical sprite phenomena were often coincident with both large-amplitude positive cloud-to-ground lightning and transient Schumann resonance excitations of the entire Earth-ionosphere cavity.
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Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification : Large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA)
Earle Williams,Daniel Rosenfeld,N. Madden,John Gerlach,N. Gears,L. Atkinson,N. Dunnemann,G. Frostrom,M. Antonio,B. Biazon,R. Camargo,H. Franca,Andreia Maria da Anunciação Gomes,M. Lima,R. Machado,S. Manhaes,L. Nachtigall,H. Piva,W. Quintiliano,Luiz A. T. Machado,Paulo Artaxo,Gregory Roberts,Nilton O. Renno,Richard J. Blakeslee,Jeffrey C. Bailey,Dennis J. Boccippio,Alan K. Betts,David B. Wolff,Biswadev Roy,Jeffrey B. Halverson,Thomas M. Rickenbach,Jose D. Fuentes,E. Avelino +32 more
TL;DR: In this article, four distinct meteorological regimes in the Amazon basin have been examined to distinguish the contributions from boundary layer aerosol and convective available potential energy (CAPE) to continental cloud structure and electrification.
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Combined Satellite- and Surface-Based Estimation of the Intracloud Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Ratio over the Continental United States
TL;DR: In this paper, four years of observations from the NASA Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and Global Atmospherics National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) are combined to determine the geographic distribution of the intracloud/cloud to ground lightning ratio over the continental United States.