Evolution of the total lightning activity in a leading-line and trailing stratiform mesoscale convective system over Beijing

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 866-878

  Liu, Dongxia ^a   Qie, Xiushu ^a   Xiong, Yajun ^b   Feng, Guili ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Beijing Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^c Lightning Protection Center of Shandong   (China)

Author keywords

cloud to ground (CG) lightning; intracloud (IC) lightning; mesoscale convective system; SAFIR 3000

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959423836     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-0001-8     Document Type: Article

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