Changes in measured lightning flash count and return stroke peak current after the 1994 U.S. National Lightning Detection Network upgrade: 1. Observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D2, 1999, Pages 2151-2157

  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; MODELING;

EID: 0033608203     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JD200060     Document Type: Article

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