Space-time correlations of lightning distributions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1850-1861

  Finke, Ulli ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTNING; STORM TRACK; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 0032728137     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1850:STCOLD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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