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On the relationship between winter thunder and the climatic change in China in the past 2200 years

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An analysis of winter thunder records in China from 250 B.C. to A.D. 1900 shows that there is a relationship between the pattern of winter thunder frequency fluctuation with that of temperature fluctuation. We hypothesized that such a temperature—thunder relationship may possibly be due to the strong frontal movement by cold air masses of well-defined low temperature.

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  1. Pao-Kuan Wang

    Present address: Dept of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, Wisc., U.S.A.

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Wang, PK. On the relationship between winter thunder and the climatic change in China in the past 2200 years. Climatic Change 3, 37–46 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00144984

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