Seasonal and global NO(x) production by lightning estimated from the optical transient detector (OTD)

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1206-1215

  Nesbitt, Stephen W ^a   Zhang, Renyi ^a   Orville, Richard E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS PRODUCTION; LIGHTNING; NITROGEN OXIDES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 0033740898     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v52i5.17098     Document Type: Article

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