Urban effect on the characteristics of cloud-to-ground lightning over Belo Horizonte-Brazil

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 697-700

  Pinto, I R C A ^a   Pinto Jr , O ^a   Gomes, M A S S ^a   Ferreira, N J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (atmospheric electricity; convective processes; lightning)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; URBAN AREA;

BELO HORIZONTE; BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1342310007     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-697-2004     Document Type: Article

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