The spatio oral distribution of lightning over Israel and the neighboring area and its relation to regional synoptic systems

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2125-2135

  Shalev, S ^a   Saaroni, H ^a   Izsak, T ^a   Yair, Y ^b   Ziv, B ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; CONVECTION; HUMIDITY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TEL AVIV;

EID: 84878408821     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-2125-2011     Document Type: Article

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