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Tag: flash rate

Study cautions use of lightning trends alone to diagnose severe weather potential

Posted in Radar, Research News on July 8, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

Researchers from NSSL and CIMMS have published the first study to combine rapidly-updating phased array radar data with high-resolution lightning data to study lightning behavior in a hail storm.

Tags: flash rate, Hot Items, Issue: July/August 2011, lightning, PAR

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