Winter thunderstorms in Israel: A study with lightning location systems and weather Radar

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1259-1266

  Altaratz, O ^a   Levin, Z ^a   Yair, Y ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; LIGHTING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MORPHOLOGY; RAIN;

LIGHTNING FLASH;

THUNDERSTORMS;

EVOLUTION; LIGHTNING; RADAR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM; WINTER;

(EAST); ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0035333894     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<1259:WTIIAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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