Some Causes for Lightning Data Inaccuracies: The Case of Michigan

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1883-1891

  Shearman, Kathleen M ^a,b   Ojala, Carl F ^a  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0041728234     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<1883:SCFLDI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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