Contribution to the climatological study of lightning

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3097-3100

  Michalon, N ^a,b   Nassif, A ^a,b   Saouri, T ^a,b   Royer, J F ^a,b   Pontikis, C A ^a,b  

^a Meteo France CNRM/Univ Antilles G   (Guadeloupe)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORMS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM); OPTICAL TRANSIENT DETECTORS (OTD);

LIGHTNING;

LIGHTNING; THUNDERCLOUD; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 0033569059     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010837     Document Type: Article

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