Dakar case
Figure 9 shows the Dakar case. Like Peru, Dakar lies on the western edge of a lightning-prone continent. Figure 9(g) shows that Dakar cannot detect lightning whose predicted logarithmic reference transmission (to Dakar) < -2.0. During daytime Dakar can detect strokes in all but the easternmost part of Africa (Figures 9a-b), but during the night, Dakar loses all of Africa coverage save for the western bulge proximal to the station itself (Figures 9d-e). All of these effects are consistent with Figures 9(c,f,g). The model predictions are grossly consistent with the Dakar pattern of detection/non-detection.