Overview of capabilities and performance of the U.S. national lightning detection network

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Murphy, Martin J ^a   Demetriades, Nicholas W S ^a   Holle, Ronald L ^a   Cummins, Kenneth L ^a  

^a VAISALA OYJ   (Finland)

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