The lightning activities in super typhoons over the Northwest Pacific

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1241-1248

  Pan, Lun Xiang ^a,b   Qie, Xiu Shu ^a   Liu, Dong Xia ^a,b   Wang, Dong Fang ^a   Yang, Jing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

lightning; super typhoon; the Northwest Pacific; WWLLN

Indexed keywords

EYEWALL; LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; LIGHTNING FLASHES; LIGHTNING LOCATION; RAINBANDS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

HURRICANES; LIGHTNING PROTECTION;

LIGHTNING;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; LIGHTNING; RAINBAND; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THUNDERSTORM; TYPHOON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 77955304896     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-3034-z     Document Type: Article

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