TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Matthew D.
TI  - Lightning: properties, formation and types 
T2  - Earth sciences in the 21st century
SN  - 9781611226744
AV  - QC966 
U1  - 551.56/32 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Nova/Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
KW  - Lightning
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Meteorology & Climatology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; LIGHTNING: PROPERTIES, FORMATION AND TYPES ; LIGHTNING: PROPERTIES, FORMATION AND TYPES ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; DYNAMICAL SELF-ORGANIZATION ACTING AS PHYSICAL BASIS OF THE BALL LIGHTNING PHENOMENON ; INTRODUCTION ; EXPERIMENTS WITH RELEVANCE FOR THE BALL LIGHTNING ; CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF THE BALL LIGHTING ; EXPLANATION OF BALL LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS ; CONCLUSIONS ; REFERENCES ; EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIGHTNING AND ITS PAST AND FUTURE INVESTIGATION; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. TYPES OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES; 2.1. Lightning ; 2.2. Transient Luminous Events; 2.3. Lightning in Dust and Volcanic Plumes 3. LIGHTNING DETECTION ON THE JOVIAN PLANETS ; 3.1. Jupiter ; 3.2. Saturn ; 3.3. Uranus and Neptune ; 4. THE CONTROVERSIAL CASE OF VENUS LIGHTNING ; 4.1. Electromagnetic Detection of Lightning-Related Signals ; 4.1.1. The Venera missions ; 4.1.2. Pioneer Venus Orbiter (PVO); 4.1.3. Venus Express ; 4.1.4. The Galileo and Cassini fly-bys ; 4.2. Detection of Optical Signals ; 5. AN EPISTOMOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW ON THE PROBLEM ; 6. PAST AND FUTURE INVESTIGATION OF TERRESTRIAL AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIGHTNING; 6.1. Investigation of Terrestrial Lightning from Space 6.2. Future Missions and the Dual-Phenomenology Approach for Extraterrestrial Lightning Investigations ; 6.3. Laboratory Simulations; 6.4. Ground-Based Radio Observations ; 6.5. Summary of Current and Future Space Mission for Lightning Investigation ; ACKNOWLEDGMENT ; REFERENCES ; RECENT STUDIES OF SCHUMANN RESONANCE AND ELF TRANSIENTS; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. EFFECTS CONNECTED WITH THE NON-UNIFORMITIES IN THE LOWER IONOSPHERE ; 2.1. Seismic Effects in the SR Band; 2.2. Formal Proofs of the Detection of the SR Line Splitting 2.3. The Impact of Solar Proton Events ; 2.4. The Impact of Extra-Solar Gamma Ray Busts ; 3. SR AND GLOBAL TEMPERATURE ; 3.1. The North-South Migration of Thunderstorm Activity ; 3.2. SR Intensity and Land Temperature ; 3.2.1. Hungarian global thermometer ; 3.2.2. Japanese global thermometer ; 4. NEW SUBJECTS FOR SR STUDIES; 4.1. SR on Other Planets: TITAN (Cassini Mission / Huygens Probe) ; 4.2. New SR Observatory at Spitzbergen ; 4.3. Sprites and ELF Transients ; 4.4. Biological Effects of SRs; 5. NEW RESULTS IN THE OLD PROBLEMS 5.1. The Solution of Inverse SR Problem ; 5.2. 'Terminator Effect'; 5.3. The Location of Q-Bursts and the Relevant Accuracy ; 5.4. A Comparison of Waveforms of Q-Bursts (Observation versus Theory) ; 5.5. Parameters of Thunderstorms Inferred from the OTD Data ; 6. CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES ; EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF LIGHTNING AND ASSOCIATED THUNDERS; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 1.1. Historical Background ; 1.2. The Lightning Mechanism ; 1.3. The Sound of a Thunder ; 1.4. Educational Aspect of the Present Work; 2. THE SIMULATION MODEL
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