Cloud-to-ground lightning observations from TOGA COARE: Selected results and lightning location algorithms

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 602-620

  Petersen, Walter A ^a   Rutledge, Steven A ^a   Orville, Richard E ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001130785     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0602:CTGLOF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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