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Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5665-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5665-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
Brief communication
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21 Dec 2022
Brief communication |  | 21 Dec 2022

World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Global Lightning Climatology (WGLC) and time series, 2022 update

Jed O. Kaplan and Katie Hong-Kiu Lau

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