Geoelectricity: atmospheric charging and thunderstorms

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Sep 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999jastp..61..955k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 61, Issue 13, p. 955-963.

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The ``classical picture of the global circuit'' - i.e. of atmospheric charging by thunderstorm clouds - is shown to be inconsistent. Thunderstorm overall voltages ∫Edz are (only) of order MV, slightly above fairweather voltages, insufficient to charge the `geocapacitor'. Instead of charging the ionosphere (via Wilson currents), thunderstorms occasionally discharge towards it, with emitted spectra ranging from the visible up to gamma-ray energies. Fairweather charging takes place, so we claim, via the negative drizzle of the `heavy' aerosols, of radii between 0.1 μm and 0.1 mm in the troposphere.

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