The Earth's electrical environment

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Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1986.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):National Academy Press
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:1986.

Notes

Based on papers presented at an American Geophysical Union symposium in June 1983, Baltimore, Md.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0585223920, 9780585223926
oclc:ocm44959107
LC Classification:QC960.5
Dewey Decimal:551.5/6

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…

Subjects

Actes de congrès Atmospheric electricity -- Congresses. … Atmospheric electricity -- Environmenta… Conference papers and proceedings Électricité atmosphérique -- Congrès. -… Homme -- Congrès. -- Influence de l'env… Human beings -- Congresses. -- Effect o… Human beings -- Effect of environment on SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences