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23 Mar 2006
Seasonal and diurnal variation of lightning activity over southern Africa and correlation with European whistler observations
A. B. Collier
School of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 4041, Durban, South Africa
Alfvén Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden
A. R. W. Hughes
School of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 4041, Durban, South Africa
J. Lichtenberger
Space Research Group, Eötvös University, Budapest, Pf 32, H-1518, Hungary
P. Steinbach
Research Group for Geoinformatics and Space Sciences, Eötvös University, Budapest, Pf 32, H-1518 Hungary
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