Enhanced cloud-to-ground lightning frequency in the vicinity of coal plants and highways in Northern Georgia, USA

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 243-248

  Strikas, Ona M ^a   Elsner, James B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Lightning; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL VARIATION;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886233985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl2.446     Document Type: Article

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