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Cloud Microphysical Properties from Remote Sensing of Lightning within the Mediterranean

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Measuring Precipitation From Space

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. ISAC-CNR, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, Italy

    Claudia Adamo

  2. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Seatlle, WA, USA

    Robert Solomon

  3. ISAC-CNR, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, Italy

    Carlo M. Medaglia

  4. ISAC-CNR, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Dietrich

  5. ISAC-CNR, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, Italy

    Alberto Mugnai

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  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), via Gobetti 101, I-40129, Italy

    Vincenzo Levizzani

  2. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 9AX, UK

    Peter Bauer

  3. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), 7 Grace Hopper Avenue, 93943-5502, Monterey, USA

    F. Joseph Turk

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Adamo, C., Solomon, R., Medaglia, C.M., Dietrich, S., Mugnai, A. (2007). Cloud Microphysical Properties from Remote Sensing of Lightning within the Mediterranean. In: Levizzani, V., Bauer, P., Turk, F.J. (eds) Measuring Precipitation From Space. Advances In Global Change Research, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5835-6_10

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