TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinto,Osmar
TI  - Lightning in the Tropics: From a Source of Fire to a Monitoring System of Climatic Changes
T2  - Climate Change and Its Causes, Effects and Prediction Series
SN  - 9781617285318
AV  - QC966 -- .P56 2009eb 
U1  - 551.56/320913 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Lightning -- Tropics -- Observations
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Tropics -- Climate
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- LIGHTNING IN THE TROPICS: FROM ASOURCE OF FIRE TO A MONITORINGSYSTEM OF CLIMATIC CHANGES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. TYPES OF LIGHTNING -- 1.2. LIGHTNING OCCURRENCE ON EARTH -- BASIC CONCEPTS -- 2.1. GROUND LIGHTNING -- 2.2. CLOUD LIGHTNING -- SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS -- 3.1. OPTICAL SENSORS -- 3.2. OBSERVATIONS -- OBSERVATIONS BY LIGHTNINGLOCATION SYSTEMS -- 4.1. LIGHTNING LOCATION SYSTEM TECHNIQUES -- 4.2. LLS IN THE TROPICAL REGION -- 4.3. DETECTION EFFICIENCY MODELS FOR LLS -- 4.4. OBSERVATIONS -- 4.4.1. Flash Density -- 4.4.2. Peak Current -- 4.4.3. Multiplicity -- 4.4.4. Comparison with Total Lightning Observations by Satellites -- 4.4.5. Comparison with LLS Observations in the Temperate Region -- OBSERVATIONS BY OTHER TECHNIQUES -- 5.1. MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELD SINGLE DEVICES -- 5.2. HIGH-SPEED CAMERAS -- 5.3. ROCKET-AND-WIRE -- 5.4. VLF MEASUREMENTS -- LIGHTNING AND GLOBAL WARMING -- 6.1. CLIMATE CHANGES AND GLOBAL WARMING -- 6.2. LIGHTNING CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING -- 6.3. LIGHTNING RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING -- FINAL REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
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