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Introduction to the electrical properties of thunderstorms, including reviews of lightning observations, in situ measurements of electric field and particle charge, instrumentation, storm electrification mechanisms, electrical effects on cloud microphysics, and numerical modelling of electrified storms. Aimed at undergraduate and research students.

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" ... the authors have done extremely well with this book and really produced " amodern, graduate level textbbok on the electrial processes of storms" ... any meterological library should get a hold of a copy of this monograph^" Meterologische Zeitschrift

Table of Contents
Tutorial: Basic Electricity and Magnetism ; 1. Overview of the Electrical Nature of the Earth's Atmosphere ; 2. Electrified Non-Thunderstorm Clouds ; 3. Introduction to the Electrical Nature of Thunderstorms ; 4. Corona and Point Discharge ; 5. Lightning ; 6. Instruments ; 7. Observations of the Electrical Characteristics of Thunderstorms, Part 1 ; 8. Observations of the Electrical Characteristics of Thunderstorms, Part 2 ; 9. Numerical Models of Thunderstorm Electrification ; 10. Electrical Effects on Cloud Microphysics

The Electrical Nature of Storms

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      Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
      Published 4/23/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780195073379
      978-0195073379
      ISBN-10 0195073371
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      Science & Nature Industrial applications of scientific research

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Introduction to the electrical properties of thunderstorms, including reviews of lightning observations, in situ measurements of electric field and particle charge, instrumentation, storm electrification mechanisms, electrical effects on cloud microphysics, and numerical modelling of electrified storms. Aimed at undergraduate and research students.

      Trade Review
      " ... the authors have done extremely well with this book and really produced " amodern, graduate level textbbok on the electrial processes of storms" ... any meterological library should get a hold of a copy of this monograph^" Meterologische Zeitschrift

      Table of Contents
      Tutorial: Basic Electricity and Magnetism ; 1. Overview of the Electrical Nature of the Earth's Atmosphere ; 2. Electrified Non-Thunderstorm Clouds ; 3. Introduction to the Electrical Nature of Thunderstorms ; 4. Corona and Point Discharge ; 5. Lightning ; 6. Instruments ; 7. Observations of the Electrical Characteristics of Thunderstorms, Part 1 ; 8. Observations of the Electrical Characteristics of Thunderstorms, Part 2 ; 9. Numerical Models of Thunderstorm Electrification ; 10. Electrical Effects on Cloud Microphysics

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