Growing detection efficiency of the world wide lightning location network

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1118, Issue , 2009, Pages 15-20

  Rodger, C J ^a   Brundell, J B ^b   Holzworth, R H ^c   Lay, E H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UltraMSKcom   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection efficiency; Global lightning location; Location accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650357886     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3137706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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