Enhancement of cloud-to-ground lightning over Houston, Texas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2597-2600

  Orville, Richard E ^a   Huffines, Gary ^b   Nielsen Gammon, John ^a   Zhang, Renyi ^a   Ely, Brandon ^a   Steiger, Scott ^a   Phillips, Stephen ^a   Allen, Steve ^c   Read, William ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wright Patterson Air Force Base   (United States)

^c National Weather Service Forecast Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC CHARGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TIME AND MOTION STUDY; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; LIGHTNING; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

FLASHES; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; CLOUD-TO-GROUND FLASH; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING FLASH; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; MEAN DROPLET SIZE; MIXED PHASE REGION; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS;

LIGHTNING; CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEAT ISLAND; LIGHTNING; URBAN AREA;

HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035391795     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL012990     Document Type: Article

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