Pune case
Figure 10 shows the Pune case. Pune is between the Australasia’s and Africa’s lightning-prone regions. As seen in Figure 10(g), Pune’s detections are almost all for strokes whose predicted logarithmic reference transmission (to Pune) > -2.3. During nighttime (Figure 10e) but not during daytime (Figure 10b), Pune can detect significant lightning in South America. Similarly, during nighttime (Figure 10e) Pune cannot detect lightning further east than Thailand, while in daytime (Figure 10b), Pune’s detection extends further eastward over Borneo. These are predicted by the model in Figures 10(c,f,g). The model predictions are consistent with the pattern of Pune detections/non-detections.