Using cloud ice flux to parametrise large-scale lightning

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 12665-12682

  Finney, D L ^a   Doherty, R M ^a   Wild, O ^b   Huntrieser, H ^c   Pumphrey, H C ^a   Blyth, A M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; LIGHTNING; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; THUNDERSTORM; TRMM;

EID: 84915749860     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-12665-2014     Document Type: Article

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