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The thunderstorm process and the theories rEnating to the formation of charges in the clouds are explained in another article.1 This paper will contain information on the lightning discharge only.
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Hagenguth, J.H. (1951). The Lightning Discharge. In: Malone, T.F. (eds) Compendium of Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-70-9_11
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