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PUBLICATIONS ON LIGHTNING IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS IN THE FRAME OF TALOS PROJECT

Giannaros, Th, V. Kotroni, K. Lagouvardos, 2015: Predicting Lightning Activity in Greece with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. Atmospheric Research, 156, 1-13.
Defer, E., Pinty, J.-P., Coquillat, S., Martin, J.-M., Prieur, S., Soula, S., Richard, E., Rison, W., Krehbiel, P., Thomas, R., Rodeheffer, D., Vergeiner, C., Malaterre, F., Pedeboy, S., Schulz, W., Farges, T., Gallin, L.-J., Ortéga, P., Ribaud, J.-F., Anderson, G., Betz, H.-D., Meneux, B., Kotroni, V., Lagouvardos, K., Roos, S., Ducrocq, V., Roussot, O., Labatut, L., and Molinié, G., 2015: An overview of the lightning and atmospheric electricity observations collected in southern France during the HYdrological cycle in Mediterranean EXperiment (HyMeX), Special Observation Period 1, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 649-669, doi:10.5194/amt-8-649-2015.
Galanaki V., Vassiliki Kotroni, Konstantinos Lagouvardos, and Athanassios Argiriou, 2015: A ten-year analysis of lightning activity over the Eastern Mediterranean. Atmospheric Research, 166, 213-222.
Karagiannidis A., K. Lagouvardos, V. Kotroni, 2016: The use of lightning data and Meteosat Infrared imagery for the nowcasting of lightning activity. Atmospheric Research, 168 (2016) 57–69, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.08.011.
Giannaros, Th, V. Kotroni, K. Lagouvardos, 2016: WRF-LTNGDA: A Lightning Data Assimilation Technique Implemented In The Wrf Model For Improving Precipitation Prediction. Environmental Modelling & Software, 76, 54-68.
Proestakis, E., Stelios Kazadzis, Konstantinos Lagouvardos, Vassiliki Kotroni, Andreas Kazantzidis, 2016: Lightning activity and aerosols in the Mediterranean region. Atmospheric Research, 170, 66-75.
Kotroni V. and K. Lagouvardos, 2016: Lightning in the Mediterranean and its relation with sea-surface temperature. Environmental Research Letters, 11, 034006.
Galanaki E, E. Flaounas, V. Kotroni, K. Lagouvardos and A. Argiriou, 2016: Lightning activity in the Mediterranean: Quantification of cyclones contribution and relation to their intensity. Atmospheric Science Letters, 17, 519-516.
Proestakis, E., Stelios Kazadzis, Konstantinos Lagouvardos, Vassiliki Kotroni, Vassilis Amiridis, Eleni Marinou, Colin Price and Andreas Kazantzidis, 2016: Aerosols and lightning activity: the effect of vertical profile and aerosol type. Atmospheric Research, 182, 243-255.
Karagiannidis A., K. Lagouvardos, V. Kotroni, and N. Mazarakis, 2016: Investigation of single-cell thunderstorms lightning activity using METEOSAT rapid scan infrared imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 37:20, 5001-5020.
Giannaros M. Th., K. Lagouvardos, and V. Kotroni, 2016: Performance evaluation of an operational lightning forecasting system in Europe. Natural Hazards, DOI 10.1007/s11069-016-2555-y.

PUBLICATIONS ON LIGHTNING IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

Defer E., K Lagouvardos, and V. Kotroni, 2005: Lightning Activity in Eastern Mediterranean Region”, JGR-Atmospheres, 110, D24210.
Katsanos D., K. Lagouvardos, V. Kotroni and A. Argiriou, 2007: Combined analysis of rainfall and lightning data produced by mesoscale systems in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean, Atmospheric Research, 83, 55-63
Lagouvardos K., and V. Kotroni, 2007: TRMM and lightning observations of a low-pressure system over the Eastern Mediterranean. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 1363–1367.
Katsanos D., Lagouvardos K., Kotroni V. and Argiriou A., 2007: Relationship of lightning activity with microwave brightness temperatures and spaceborne radar reflectivity profiles in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 46, 1901-1912.
Lagouvardos K., V. Kotroni and E. Defer, 2007: The 21-22 January 2004 explosive cyclogenesis over the Aegean Sea: observations and model analysis. Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 133, 1519-1531.
Kotroni V., and K. Lagouvardos, 2008: Lightning occurrence in relation with elevation, terrain slope and vegetation cover over the Mediterranean. JGR-Atmospheres, 113, D21118, doi:10.1029/2008JD010605.
Mazarakis N., V. Kotroni, K. Lagouvardos and A.A. Argiriou, 2008: Storms and Lightning Activity in Greece during the Warm Periods of 2003-2006. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 3089–3098.
Petrova S., R. Mitzeva, V. Kotroni, J. Latham and E. Peneva, 2009: Analyses of summer lightning activity and precipitation in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. Atmospheric Research, 91, 453-458
Mazarakis, N., V. Kotroni, K. Lagouvardos and A.A. Argiriou, 2009: The sensitivity of numerical forecasts to convective parameterization during the warm period and the use of lighting data as an indicator for convective occurrence. Atmospheric Research 94 (4), pp. 704-714.
Katsanos D.K., K. Lagouvardos and V. Kotroni, 2009: Relationship between lightning and model simulated microphysical parameters over the central and eastern Mediterranean, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS), 9, 1719-1726.
Lagouvardos K., V. Kotroni, H-D Betz and K. Schmidt, 2009: A comparison of lightning data provided by ZEUS and LINET networks over Western Europe. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 9, 1713-1717.
Yoav Yair, Barry Lynn, Colin Price, Vassiliki Kotroni, Konstantinos Lagouvardos, Efrat Morin, Alberto Mugnai and Maria-Carmen Llasat, 2010: Predicting the potential for lightning activity in Mediterranean storms based on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model dynamic and microphysical fields. JGR-Atmospheres, 115, D04205, doi:10.1029/2008JD010868.
Williams E., W. Lyons, Y. Hobara, V. Mushtak, N. Asencio, R. Boldi, J. Bór, S. Cummer, E. Greenberg, M. Hayakawa, R. Holzworth, V. Kotroni, J. Li, C. Morales1, T. Nelson, C. Price, B. Russell, G. Sátori, K. Shirahata, Y. Takahashi, K. Yamashita, 2010: Ground-based detection of sprites and their parent lightning flashes over Africa during the 2006 AMMA campaign. Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 136, 257–271.
Kohn M., E. Galanti, C. Price, K. Lagouvardos and V. Kotroni, 2011: Now-Casting Thunderstorms in the Mediterranean Region using Lightning Data. Atmospheric Research, 100, 489-502.
Price C., Yoav Yair, Alberto Mugnai, Kostas Lagouvardos, Maria Carmen Llasat, Silas Michaelides, Stefano Dietrich, Eli Galanti, Luis Garrote, Dimitris Katsanos, Vasso Kotroni, Montserrat Llasat-Botija, Luis Mediero, Efrat Morin, Kleanthis Nicolaides, Keti Savvidou, Baruch Ziv, 2011: The FLASH Project: Using lightning data to better understand and predict flash floods. Environmental Science & Policy, 14, 898-911.
Price C., Y. Yair, A. Mugnai, K. Lagouvardos, M. C. Llasat, S. Michaelides, U. Dayan, S. Dietrich, F. Di Paola, E. Galanti, L. Garrote, N. Harats, D. Katsanos, M. Kohn, V. Kotroni, M. Llasat-Botija, B. Lynn, L. Mediero, E. Morin , K. Nicolaides, S. Rozalis, K. Savvidou, and B. Ziv, 2011: Using lightning data to better understand and predict flash floods in the Mediterranean. Surveys in Geophysics 32 (6) , pp. 733-751.
Koutroulis A. G., M. G. Grillakis, I. K. Tsanis, V. Kotroni and K. Lagouvardos, 2012: Lightning activity, rainfall and flash flooding. Occasional or interrelated events? A case study in the island of Crete, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 12, 881-889.
Lagouvardos, K., V. Kotroni, E. Defer and O. Bousquet, 2013: Study of a heavy precipitation event over southern France, in the frame of HYMEX project: Observational analysis and model results using assimilation of lightning. Atmospheric Research, Volume 134, 1 December 2013, Pages 45-55.
Petrova S., R. Mitzeva and V. Kotroni, 2014: Summer-time lightning activity and its relation with precipitation: diurnal variation over Maritime, Coastal and Continental Areas, Atmospheric Research. Atmospheric Research, 135–136, 388–396.
Drobinski, P., V. Ducrocq, J.T. Allen, P. Alpert, E. Anagnostou, K. Béranger, M. Borga, I. Braud, A. Chanzy, S. Davolio, G. Delrieu, A. Dörnbrack, C. Estournel, N. Filali Boubrahmi, J. Font, M. Gacic, V. Grubisic, E. Grunfest, S. Gualdi, H. Hoff, B. Ivancan-Picek, C. Kottmeier, V. Kotroni, K. Lagouvardos, P. Lionello, M.C. Llasat, W. Ludwig, C. Lutoff, A. Mariotti, A. Montanari, E. Ozoy, C. Prigent, E. Richard, R. Romero, R. Rotunno, I. Ruin, V.H. Santaner, 9 D. Sauri, S. Somot, I. Taupier-Letage, R. Therrien, J. Tintore, R. Uijlenhoet, and H. Wernli, 2014: HyMeX, a 10-year multidisciplinary program on the Mediterranean water cycle. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 1063–1082.