Cloud-to-ground lightning throughout the lifetime of a severe storm system in Oklahoma

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1798-1816

  Shafer, Mark A ^a,c   MacGorman, Donald R ^b   Carr, Frederick H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; SEVERE WEATHER; STORM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033942175     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1798:CTGLTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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