On the spatial and temporal distribution of global thunderstorm cells

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Mezuman, Keren ^a,b,c   Price, Colin ^c   Galanti, Eli ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Global electric circuit; Lightning; Thunderstorms; Very low frequency; World wide lightning location

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LIGHTNING; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

CONTINENTAL LANDMASS; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRIC CIRCUIT; GLOBAL ELECTRIC CIRCUIT; LIGHTNING LOCATION; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

THUNDERSTORMS;

ANTENNA; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; LIGHTNING; NEW RECORD; OPTICAL METHOD; SATELLITE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 84919680995     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124023     Document Type: Article

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