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The Earth's electrical environment / Geophysics Study Committee, Geophysics Research Forum, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in geophysicsPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1986.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585223920
  • 9780585223926
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Earth's electrical environment.DDC classification:
  • 551.5/6 19
LOC classification:
  • QC960.5 .E27 1986eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Lighning phenomenology / Richard E. Orville -- Physics of lightning / E. Philip Krider -- Positive cloud-to-ground lightning / W. David Rust -- Acoustic radiations from thunderstorms / Arthur A. Few, Jr. -- Applications of advances in lightning research to lightning protection / Martin A. Uman -- The role of lightning in the chemistry of the atmosphere / William L. Chameides -- Thunderstorm origins, morphology, and dynamics / Edwin Kessler -- The electrical structure of thunderstorms / Paul R. Krehbiel -- Charging mechanisms in clouds and thunderstorms / Kenneth V.K. Beard and Harry T. Ochs -- Models of the development of the electrical structure of clouds / Zev Levin and Israel Tzur -- Atmospheric electricity in the planetary boundary layer / William A. Hoppel, R.V. Anderson, and John C. Willett.
Electrical structure from 0 to 30 kilometers / Wolfgang Gringel, James M. Rosen, and David J. Hofmann -- Electrical structure of the middle atmosphere / George C. Reid -- Upper-atmosphere electric-field sources / Arthur D. Richmond -- The global atmospheric-electrical circuit / Raymond G. Roble and Israel Tzur -- Telluric currents : the natural environment and interactions with man-made systems / Louis J. Lanzerotti and Giovanni P. Gregori.
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Based on papers presented at an American Geophysical Union symposium in June 1983, Baltimore, Md.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Lighning phenomenology / Richard E. Orville -- Physics of lightning / E. Philip Krider -- Positive cloud-to-ground lightning / W. David Rust -- Acoustic radiations from thunderstorms / Arthur A. Few, Jr. -- Applications of advances in lightning research to lightning protection / Martin A. Uman -- The role of lightning in the chemistry of the atmosphere / William L. Chameides -- Thunderstorm origins, morphology, and dynamics / Edwin Kessler -- The electrical structure of thunderstorms / Paul R. Krehbiel -- Charging mechanisms in clouds and thunderstorms / Kenneth V.K. Beard and Harry T. Ochs -- Models of the development of the electrical structure of clouds / Zev Levin and Israel Tzur -- Atmospheric electricity in the planetary boundary layer / William A. Hoppel, R.V. Anderson, and John C. Willett.

Electrical structure from 0 to 30 kilometers / Wolfgang Gringel, James M. Rosen, and David J. Hofmann -- Electrical structure of the middle atmosphere / George C. Reid -- Upper-atmosphere electric-field sources / Arthur D. Richmond -- The global atmospheric-electrical circuit / Raymond G. Roble and Israel Tzur -- Telluric currents : the natural environment and interactions with man-made systems / Louis J. Lanzerotti and Giovanni P. Gregori.

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