Weekend-weekday aerosols and geographic variability in cloud-to-ground lightning for the urban region of Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-151

  Stallins, J Anthony ^a   Carpenter, James ^b   Bentley, Mace L ^c   Ashley, Walker S ^c   Mulholland, James A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Bioclimatology; Climate change; GIS; Lightning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873526478     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0327-0     Document Type: Article

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