Cloud-to-ground lightning activity in the contiguous United States from 1995 to 1999

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 999-1019

  Zajac, B A ^a   Rutledge, S A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; STORMS;

FLASH DENSITY;

LIGHTNING;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM;

PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035333059     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<0999:CTGLAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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