A 10-yr monthly lightning climatology of Florida: 1986-95

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 439-448

  Hodanish, Stephen ^a   Sharp, David ^a   Collins, Waylon ^a   Paxton, Charles ^a   Orville, Richard E ^b  

^a NOAA National Weather Service Jacksonville   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

CLOUD TO GROUND (CG) LIGHTNING FLASHES;

LIGHTNING;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; LIGHTNING FLASH; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; THUNDERSTORM;

USA, FLORIDA;

EID: 0031225093     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0439:AYMLCO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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