Changes in measured lightning flash count and return stroke peak current after the 1994 U.S. National Lightning Detection Network upgrade: 2. Theory

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D2, 1999, Pages 2159-2162

  Wacker, Robert S ^a   Orville, Richard E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; LIGHTNING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0033608151     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JD200059     Document Type: Article

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