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Petersen et al. 2005
Petersen, W.A., Christian, H.J. and Rutledge, S.A. (2005). TRMM observations of the global relationship between ice water content and lightning. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2005GL023236. issn: 0094-8276.

This study uses TRMM lightning and radar observations to study the fundamental relationship between precipitation ice mass and lightning flash density. The results indicate that the physical assumptions of precipitation-based charging and mixed phase precipitation development are robust and that on a global scale, the relationship between precipitation ice water path and lightning flash density is relatively invariant between land, ocean and coastal regimes. Hence lightning data may be a useful variable for inclusion in combined space borne algorithms designed to retrieve ice water content.

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Keywords
Atmospheric Processes, Convective processes, Atmospheric Processes, Lightning, Atmospheric Processes, Precipitation, Atmospheric Processes, Remote sensing, Atmospheric Processes, Tropical meteorology
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Geophysical Research Letters
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