Relationships between lightning and properties of convective cloud clusters

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Futyan, Joanna M ^a,b   Del Genio, Anthony D ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; LIGHTNING; RAIN; STORMS;

CLOUD TOP HEIGHT; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE RAIN; LIGHTNING FLASH; STORM HEIGHT;

METEOROLOGY;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ISOTHERM; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; LIGHTNING; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 34948819712     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030227     Document Type: Article

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