CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Jessica Cristina dos Santos Souza in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Lightning triggered by tall structures has been studied since the end of 1930 decade. In Brazil, the first Upward Lightning (UL) was registered in 2012 at Pico do Jaraguá, the highest point in Sao Paulo city. This type of lightning have has its initiation associated to cloud-to-ground lightning at convective regions of the cloud, which intensify the local electric field at the top of tall…
Upward lightning flashes at tall structures have been reported to be initiated by in-cloud branching of a parent positive cloud-to-ground (CG) or intracloud (IC) lightning during the decaying stages of thunderstorms, and associated with stratiform precipitation. This in-cloud branching of the parent CG lightning into lower layers of the stratiform precipitation, as well as other situatio…
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