Advances in ball lightning studies

Journal of Meteorology

Volumn 25, Issue 253, 2000, Pages 308-318

  Smirnov, Boris M ^a  

^a JOINT INSTITUTE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTNING; METHODOLOGY; MODELING;

EID: 0034535798     PISSN: 03075966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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