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A Study of Spatio-Temporal Lightning Patterns Using Self-Organizing Maps
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  • Adriano Pereira Almeida,
  • Alan James Peixoto Calheiros,
  • Arturo Sanchez,
  • Helvecio Bezerra Leal Neto
Adriano Pereira Almeida
National Institute for Space Research

Corresponding Author:adriano.almeida@inpe.br

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Alan James Peixoto Calheiros
National Institute for Space Research
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Arturo Sanchez
National Institute for Space Research
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Helvecio Bezerra Leal Neto
National Institute for Space Research
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Abstract

Brazil is one of countries highest incidence of lightning in the world and the characterization of thus event can help in the development of public polices and decision-making by authorities to mitigate the socio-economic damage that may be caused. This work presents some analysis of spatio-temporal patterns of lightnings in Brazil in 2020, generated from Self-Organizing Map (SOM) technique. This analysis considers the activity of the lightning in the hourly, daily and monthly periods accumulated in the different Brazilian states. The seasonal variation of lightning was also evaluated, considering the four seasons of 2020. The results showed that the self-organizing maps were efficient in identifying spatio-temporal patterns of lightning, which are highly variability events. Thus, theses results can support the development of new tools or analysis in which the spatio-temporal information lightning is important, for example, in warning and forecasting systems.