Effect of meteorological parameters and environmental pollution on thunderstorm and lightning activity over an urban metropolis of India

Urban Climate

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-75

  Chaudhuri, Sutapa ^a   Middey, Anirban ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

CAPE; Lightning; Pollution; Suspended particulate matter; Thunderstorm; Tropospheric NO2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878227016     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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