The daily cloud-to-ground lightning flash density in the contiguous united states and Finland

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1323-1337

  Mäkelä, Antti ^a   Rossi, Pekka ^a   Schultz, David M ^a,b,c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lightning

Indexed keywords

CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING FLASH; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; FINLAND; FLASH DENSITY; FLORIDA; GROUND FLASH; GROUND FLASH DENSITIES; GULF OF MEXICO; LIGHTNING DETECTION; LIGHTNING INTENSITY; MEDIAN VALUE; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES;

CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

THUNDERSTORMS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; FORECASTING METHOD; SENSOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM; THUNDERSTORM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FINLAND; GULF OF MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955618208     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3517.1     Document Type: Article

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