Cloud-to-ground lightning downwind of the 2002 Hayman forest fire in Colorado

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Lang, Timothy J ^a   Rutledge, Steven A ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FIRES; FORESTRY; LIGHTNING; SMOKE; THUNDERSTORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING DOWNWIND; HAYMAN FOREST FIRE; LIGHTNING POLARITY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRE;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERE; COLORADO; FOREST FIRES; LIGHTNING; SMOKE;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645817341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024608     Document Type: Article

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