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08 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 08 Dec 2025

Lightning-intense deep convective transport of water vapour into the UTLS over the Third Pole region

Prashant Singh and Bodo Ahrens

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Intense deep convective clouds (e.g. lightning events) can rapidly move water vapour and other gases into the upper troposphere. The Third Pole region, especially the Himalayas, frequently experiences such storms. ICON (Icosahedral Nonhydrostatic )-CLM (climate limited-area mode) (3.3 km) and ERA5 reanalysis data (30 km), these convective events can lift water vapour into the upper troposphere but rarely into the lower stratosphere in the Third Pole. After reaching the upper troposphere, the water vapour tends to move horizontally away from the region.
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