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From page 94...
... (Earlier work by Wilson on the properties of atmospheric ions led him to develop the cloud chamber for studying high-energy particles, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1927.) Subsequent field studies in England and New Mexico between about 1935 and 1955 confirmed this basic picture of the storm charges and indicated that the main negative charge resided at altitudes where the ambient temperature is less than 0°C (Simpson and Scrase, 1937; Workman et al., 1942; Reynolds and Neill, 1955)
From page 95...
... The main negative charge appears not only to be distributed horizontally in a storm but to remain at approximately constant altitude or temperature as the storm grows. This is indicated by the results of Figure 8.6, which shows the heights of the charge centers for the first 15 lightning discharges in the small Florida storm of Figure 8.3.
From page 96...
... _ ~_ - _ ,, me ~% 1 ~/~. ~ + ~Storms Florida Florida New Mexico Plain Winter FIGURE 8.5 Illustration of how the negative-charge centers of cloud-to-ground lightning are at similar temperature levels in New Mexico and Florida storms, even though the latter have much greater extent of cloud and precipitation below the 0°C level and often above this level as well (adapted from the original by M


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