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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Phoebe
Other Authors: Cronin, Timothy
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155333