The Earth's Electrical Environment

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Publication Year:1986

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Geophysics Study Committee, Geophysics Research Forum, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council
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This latest addition to the Studies in Geophysics series explores in scientific detail the phenomenon of lightning, cloud, and thunderstorm electricity, and global and regional electrical processes. Consisting of 16 papers by outstanding experts in a number of fields, this ...
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Front Matter	i-xvi
OVERVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS	1-22	(skim)
1 Lightning Phenomenology	23-29	(skim)
2 Physics of Lightning	30-40	(skim)
3 Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning	41-45	(skim)
4 Acoustic Radiations from Lightning	46-60	(skim)
5 Application of Advances in Lightning Research to Lightning Protection	61-69	(skim)
6 The Role of Lightning in the Chemistry of the Atmosphere	70-80	(skim)
7 Thunderstorm Origins, Morphology, and Dynamics	81-89	(skim)
8 The Electrical Structure of Thunderstorms	90-113	(skim)
9 Charging Mechanisms in Clouds and Thunderstorms	114-130	(skim)
10 Models of the Development of the Electrical Structure of Clouds	131-148	(skim)
11 Atmospheric Electricity in the Planetary Boundary Layer	149-165	(skim)
12 Electrical Structure from 0 to 30 Kilometers	166-182	(skim)
13 Electrical Structure of the Middle Atmosphere	183-194	(skim)
14 Upper-Atmosphere Electric-Field Sources	195-205	(skim)
15 The Global Atmospheric-Electrical Circuit	206-231	(skim)
16 Telluric Currents: The Natural Environment and Interactions with Man-Made Systems	232-258	(skim)
INDEX	259-263	(skim)

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This latest addition to the Studies in Geophysics series explores in scientific detail the phenomenon of lightning, cloud, and thunderstorm electricity, and global and regional electrical processes. Consisting of 16 papers by outstanding experts in a number of fields, this volume compiles and reviews many recent advances in such research areas as meteorology, chemistry, electrical engineering, and physics and projects how new knowledge could be applied to benefit mankind.

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