Utilizing total lightning information to diagnose convective trends

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 167-175

  Darden, Christopher B ^a   Nadler, David J ^a   Carcione, Brian C ^a   Blakeslee, Richard J ^b   Stano, Geoffrey T ^c   Buechler, Dennis E ^d  

^a NOAA/National Weather Service Forecast Office   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; DATA SETS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; GROUND BASED; GROUND-BASED NETWORK; HUNTSVILLE; LEAD TIME; LESSONS LEARNED; NOWCASTING; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE; PARTIAL INFORMATION; QUANTIFIABLE MEASURES; REAL TIME; SEVERE STORMS; SEVERE WEATHER; SPACE-BORNE; STANDARD ANALYSIS; STORM ANALYSIS; TORNADO WARNINGS; TOTAL LIGHTNING;

DECISION MAKING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; THUNDERSTORMS;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 77950005482     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2808.1     Document Type: Article

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