Description
Book SynopsisIntroduction 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 ContentsTutorial: 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
