On the hourly contribution of global cloud-to-ground lightning activity to the atmospheric electric field in the Antarctic during December 1992

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 745-750

  Fullekrug M ^a   Fraser Smith, A C ^b   Bering, E A ^c   Few, A A ^d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIGHTNING;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0342632767     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(99)00031-0     Document Type: Article

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