Impact of lightning on air chemistry and climate

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 537-549

  Grewe, Volker ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric chemistry; Climate; Lightning; Modelling; Observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891994043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9079-0_25     Document Type: Chapter

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