Cloud‐to‐ground lightning activity and radar observations of storms in the pyrénées range area

This paper analyses radar observations and cloud‐to‐ground (CG) lightning flash activity of several thunderstorms occurring over the Pyrénées range during the night of 23‐24 August 1993 and the afternoon of 24 August 1993. the available data consisted of the European meteorological bulletin, the plan position indicator radar scans at three elevations performed by the 5.5 cm wavelength Rodin radar of Toulouse, and the characteristics of the CG lightning strikes.

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