Storms and lightning activity in Greece during the warm periods of 2003-06

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3089-3098

  Mazarakis, Nick ^a,b   Kotroni, V ^b   Lagouvardos, K ^b   Argiriou, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VORTICITIES; AIR ANALYSIS; ARRIVAL TIME; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNINGS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FLASH DENSITIES; IONIAN SEAS; LIGHTNING ACTIVITIES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURES; SHORT-WAVE TROUGHS; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; TERRAIN FEATURES; WARM SEASONS; WESTERN GREECE;

STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LIGHTNING;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; ELEVATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SLOPE; STORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VORTICITY; WARMING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PELOPONNESE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 65249129931     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1798.1     Document Type: Article

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