Response of global lightning activity to air temperature variation

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2640-2644

  Ma, Ming ^a   Tao, Shanchang ^a   Zhu, Baoyou ^a   Lü, Weitao ^b   Tan, Yongbo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Interannual climate variation; OTD LIS; Response of lightning activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749822691     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/04wd0351     Document Type: Article

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