The UW Cloud Top Cooling (CTC) product is used at NWS-Sullivan to anticipate (or corroborate) the development of deep moist convection and lightning. Images above, of cloud-top cooling from Tuesday morning, 3 July 2012, show regions of cooling that occur just before (or concurrent with) the initial lightning strokes. During the GOES-R era, when temporal resolution is increased, the ability of CTC to anticipate convective development should increase.
Scott Lindstrom, UW-CIMSS and Steve Hentz NWS-MKX
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