A decade of cloud-to-ground lightning in Canada: 1999-2008. Part 2: Polarity, multiplicity and first-stroke peak current

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 195-209

  Kochtubajda, Bohdan ^a   Burrows, William R ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THUNDERSTORM; TREND ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 77957579047     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/AO1119.2010     Document Type: Article

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