Lightning casualties and damages in China from 1997 to 2009

Natural Hazards

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 465-476

  Zhang, Wenjuan ^a,b   Meng, Qing ^a   Ma, Ming ^c   Zhang, Yijun ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Casualty; China; Damage; Fatality; Lightning

Indexed keywords

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LIGHTNING; MORTALITY; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA;

EID: 79955523063     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9628-0     Document Type: Article

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