A small updraft producing a fatal lightning flash

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 627-632

  Hodanish, Stephen ^a   Holle, Ronald L ^b   Lindsey, Daniel T ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Holle Meteorology and Photography   (United States)

^c Coop Inst for Res the Atmosphere ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; LIGHTNING; RADAR; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LIGHTNING FLASH; SATELLITE DATA;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LIGHTNING; SATELLITE DATA;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3142740949     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0627:ASUPAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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