Warm season lightning distributions over the northern Gulf of Mexico coast and their relation to synoptic-scale and mesoscale environments

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 415-438

  Smith, Jessica R ^a,b   Fuelberg, Henry E ^a   Watson, Andrew I ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA/National Weather Service Forecast Office   (United States)

^c NOAA National Weather Service Jacksonville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; LIGHTNING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOSONDES; SEAWATER; WIND EFFECTS;

CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; WARM SEASON LIGHTNING; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27544493830     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF870.1     Document Type: Article

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