Lightning ground flash density in the contiguous United States: 1992-95

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 631-638

  Orville, Richard E ^a   Silver, Alan C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001183887     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<0631:LGFDIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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