The NASA Lightning Nitrogen Oxides Model (LNOM): Application to air quality modeling

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 135-136, Issue , 2014, Pages 363-369

  Koshak, William ^a   Peterson, Harold ^b   Biazar, Arastoo ^c   Khan, Maudood ^b   Wang, Lihua ^c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lightning; Lightning climatology; Lightning mapping; Lightning physics; Nitrogen oxide

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELING; ALTITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITIES; CONTINUING CURRENT; ITS APPLICATIONS; LIGHTNING CHANNEL; LIGHTNING DETECTION; LIGHTNING MAPPING ARRAY;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; NASA; NITROGEN OXIDES; SPACE FLIGHT;

LIGHTNING;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; LIGHTNING; MAPPING METHOD; NITROGEN OXIDES; NSCAT; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84889570918     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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