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The Earth's Electrical Environment (1986)
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Front Matter
i-xii
Contents
xiii-xvi
Overview and Recommendations
1-22
1 Lightning Phenomenology
23-29
2 Physics of Lightning
30-40
3 Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning
41-45
4 Acoustic Radiations from Thunderstorms
46-60
5 Applications of Advances in Lightning Research to Lightning Protection
61-69
6 The Role of Lightning in the Chemistry of the Atmosphere
70-80
7 Thunderstorm Origins, Morphology, and Dynamics
81-89
8 The Electrical Structure of Thunderstorms
90-113
9 Charging Mechanisms in Clouds and Thunderstorms
114-130
10 Models of Development of the Electrical Structure of Clouds
131-148
11 Atmospheric Electricity in the Planetary Boundary Layer
149-165
12 Electrical Structure from 0 to 30 Kilometers
166-182
13 Electrical Structure of the Middle Atmosphere
183-194
14 Upper-Atmosphere Electric-Field Sources
195-205
15 The Global Atmospheric-Electrical Circuit
206-231
16 Telluric Currents: The Natural Environment and Interactions with Man-made Systems
232-258
Index
259-263

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