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Nature Geoscience 1, 216 - 217 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo168

Subject Category: Atmospheric science

Atmospheric science: Predictable lightning paths?

Earle R. Williams1

  1. Earle R. Williams is at the Parsons Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    e-mail: earlew@ll.mit.edu


Electrical discharges from thunderstorms include bolts-from-the-blue, blue jets and gigantic jets along with the more common intracloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. All these phenomena can be understood in a single framework.

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