Monitoring of lightning from the April-May 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption using a very low frequency lightning location network

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Bennett, A J ^a   Odams, P ^a   Edwards, D ^a   Arason, P ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Eyjafjallaj kull; Lightning; Volcanic eruptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751534251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/4/044013     Document Type: Article

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