Energetic radiation and lightning

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 331-346

  Dwyer, Joseph R ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric electricity; Energetic radiation; Lightning; Thunderstorms; X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892071746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9079-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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