Lightning flash multiplicity in eastern mediterranean thunderstorms

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 165-173

  Yair, Y ^a   Shalev, S ^b   Erlich, Z ^a   Agrachov, A ^b   Katz, E ^c   Saaroni, H ^b   Price, C ^b   Ziv, B ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84893329569     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-165-2014     Document Type: Article

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