Electric field values observed near lightning flash initiations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Stolzenburg, Maribeth ^a   Marshall, Thomas C ^a   Rust, W David ^b   Bruning, Eric ^c   MacGorman, Donald R ^b,c   Hamlin, Timothy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; SOUNDING APPARATUS; THUNDERSTORMS;

LIGHTNING FLASH INITIATIONS;

LIGHTNING;

DATA SET; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIGHTNING; PRESSURE EFFECT; VERTICAL ELECTRICAL SOUNDING;

EID: 34547498208     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028777     Document Type: Article

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