Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-305-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-305-2017
Research article
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06 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 06 Mar 2017

Spatio-temporal modelling of lightning climatologies for complex terrain

Thorsten Simon, Nikolaus Umlauf, Achim Zeileis, Georg J. Mayr, Wolfgang Schulz, and Gerhard Diendorfer

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