In search for relationships between lightning and rainfall with a rectangular grid-box methodology

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 20, Issue , 2009, Pages 51-56

  Michaelides, S C ^a   Savvidou, K ^a   Nicolaides, K A ^a   Charalambous, M ^a  

^a Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; DATA SET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

CYPRUS;

EID: 77950359588     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-20-51-2009     Document Type: Article

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