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Full Description
Rapid progress during the last twenty years has created a host of new technologies for studying electrical storms, including lightning mapping systems, new radars, satellite sensors, and new ways of measuring electric field and particle charge. This book explains how these advances have revolutionized our understanding. The books provides enough background material to make it accessible to a wide audience.
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