Climatic lightning activity and its correlations with meteorological parameters in South China

International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, ICAE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zheng, Dong ^a   Zhang, Yijun ^a   Chen, Luwen ^b  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b Lightning Protection Center of Guangdong Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTNING; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC STRATIFICATION; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; LINEAR CORRELATION; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

CLOUDS;

EID: 85086812622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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