Cloud-to-ground lightning and surface rainfall during the great flood of 1993

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1140-1149

  Kempf, Nicole M ^a   Krider, E Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLOUDS; FLOODS; RAIN; STREAM FLOW;

SURFACE RAINFALL;

LIGHTNING;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; STREAMFLOW;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038170050     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1140:CLASRD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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