Satellite Observations of Lightning
- 28 August 1970
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 169 (3948) , 860-862
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.169.3948.860
Abstract
Analysis of the positions of nighttime thunderstorms as determined from the detection of optical radiation by satellite OSO-B reveals that ten times as many lightning storms occur over land areas as over the sea.Keywords
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