Peru case
Figure 6 shows the Peru case. This is the first of our two cases on the west margins of lightning-rich continents. Like Tahiti, Peru can detect almost only for predicted logarithmic reference transmission (to Peru) > -2.5 (Figure 6g). In the daytime case (Figures 6a-c), Peru can detect well throughout South America. In the nighttime case (Figures 6d-e), Peru cannot detect strokes in the eastern half of its own continent, even as it detects in far more distant Micronesia. This is well predicted by Figures 6(c,f). All the quantitative outcomes of the data for Peru are summarized in Figure 6(g) ), and it indicates the model is consistent with the Peru station’s detection/non-detection. If the model were fundamentally inconsistent with the observations, then the red curve in Figure 6(g) would not be selective for the high-transmission end of the abscissa.