Nordic Lightning Information System: Thunderstorm climate of Northern Europe for the period 2002-2011

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 139, Issue , 2014, Pages 46-61

  Mäkelä, Antti ^a   Enno, Sven Erik ^b   Haapalainen, Jussi ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Lightning; Lightning location; Severe weather; Thunderstorm climate; Thunderstorms

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; COLD SEASON; GROUND FLASH; GROUND FLASH DENSITIES; LIGHTNING LOCATION; SEVERE WEATHER; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; WEST COAST;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; THUNDERSTORMS;

LIGHTNING;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; SATELLITE DATA; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ESTONIA; FINLAND; NORTH SEA; NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84893128168     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.01.008     Document Type: Article

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