Developing a climatology for dry thunderstorms and associated environmental conditions in the contiguous United States
Dry thunderstorms are the result of an interesting balance of meteorological variables: they require sufficient moisture and instability in the atmosphere, but also a dry surface layer that facilitates evaporation of falling precipitation. Here, lightning flashes and precipitation amounts for the co...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155333 |