Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-429-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-429-2013
Model evaluation paper
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03 Apr 2013
Model evaluation paper |  | 03 Apr 2013

Evaluating a lightning parameterization based on cloud-top height for mesoscale numerical model simulations

J. Wong, M. C. Barth, and D. Noone

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