Lightning activity over land and sea on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2060-2070

  Altaratz, Orit ^a   Levin, Zev ^a   Yair, Yoav ^b   Ziv, Baruch ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY;

LIGHTNING ACTIVITY;

STORMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; HEAT FLUX; HUMIDITY; LIGHTNING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THUNDERSTORM;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0141906310     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2060:LAOLAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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