Cloud-to-ground lightning in linear mesoscale convective systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1232-1242

  Parker, M D ^a   Rutledge, S A ^a   Johnson, R H ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; LIGHTING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STRATIGRAPHY;

AVERAGE FLASH DENSITIES;

WEATHER MODIFICATION;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 0035333044     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<1232:CTGLIL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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