Thunderstorms, lightning and climate change

Lightning: Principles, Instruments and Applications: Review of Modern Lightning Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 521-535

  Price, Colin ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate; Climate change; ENSO; General circulation; Global climate; Global warming; Lightning; Thunderstorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891977261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9079-0_24     Document Type: Chapter

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