Articles | Volume 15, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2449-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2449-2015
Research article
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04 Nov 2015
Research article |  | 04 Nov 2015

Lightning characteristics over the eastern coast of the Mediterranean during different synoptic systems

Y. Ben Ami, O. Altaratz, Y. Yair, and I. Koren

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