Do aerosols affect lightning?: A global study of a relation between aerosol optical depth and cloud to ground lightning

International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, ICAE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kucienska, Beata ^a   Raga, G B ^a   Koren, Ilan ^b   Altaratz, Orit ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; LIGHTNING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; INSTABILITY CONDITION; LIGHTNING LOCATION; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER;

CLOUDS;

EID: 85086811998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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