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Kandalgaonkar et al. 2003

Kandalgaonkar, S.S., Tinmaker, M.I.R., Kulkarni, J.R. and Nath, A. (2003). Diurnal variation of lightning activity over the Indian region. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL018005. issn: 0094-8276.

Satellite (LIS) based lightning flash grid (0.5¿ ¿ 0.5¿) data for the Indian land mass region covering from 8¿--33¿N and 73¿--86¿E for a period of 4 years (1998--2001) were used to study the diurnal variation with one hour time resolution. The analysis revealed that there exists a strong diurnal cycle in the lightning activity with a prominent peak around 1000 UTC. An examination of seasonal diurnal variation suggests that the lightning activity was found highest in premonsoon and lowest in the postmonsoon season.

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Keywords
Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Atmospheric electricity, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Lightning, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, General or miscellaneous, Oceanography, General, Diurnal, seasonal, and annual cycles, Planetology, Comets and Small Bodies, Satellites

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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