2016-10-19, 19:20
It appears that there is a problem in Florida with the detection efficiency, but you are probably a bit to early with your question. I expect that after the roll-out of system blue there will be time to address questions like efficieny and location accuracy. From the developers side one would require an estimate of strength and polarity (polarity from the e-field) of the stroke to see where the cut-off towards lower strength is, but this will probably only happen when the backlog of more than thousand systems is gone.
The community is well placed to help checking these parameter, e.g. with video recordings.
The NLDN is of course the gold standard for lightning detection, but Vaisala has been working for 30 years on it so a comparison is not quite fair at the moment.
The community is well placed to help checking these parameter, e.g. with video recordings.
The NLDN is of course the gold standard for lightning detection, but Vaisala has been working for 30 years on it so a comparison is not quite fair at the moment.