Land-sea contrast in the lightning diurnal variation as observed by the WWLLN and LIS/OTD data

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 591-600

  Pan, Lunxiang ^a   Liu, Dongxia ^a   Qie, Xiushu ^a   Wang, Dongfang ^a   Zhu, Runpeng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

diurnal variation; lightning activity; LIS OTD; WWLLN

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; DIURNAL VARIATION; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; LIGHTNING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CONGO BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84881586367     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: 21914788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-013-0408-0     Document Type: Article

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