Surface measurement system for the atmospheric electrical vertical conduction current density, with displacement current density correction

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Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008jastp..70.1373b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 70, Issue 11-12, p. 1373-1381.

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Atmospheric Electricity, Air-Earth Current, Global Circuit, Electrometry, Atmospheric Instrumentation

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Global thunderstorm and shower cloud activity generate the global electric potential difference between the Earth's surface and the lower ionosphere. The finite conductivity of atmospheric air, which arises from cosmic ray and natural radioactive ionisation, permits a vertical conduction current density (~1 pA m-2) between the lower ionosphere and the surface during fair-weather conditions; this current provides a physical link between the upper and lower atmospheres. A new instrument system is described to measure the conduction current density at the surface (the "air-Earth current"), which operates on a novel principle using two collecting electrodes of different geometry. Simultaneous measurements from two independent co-located systems using the geometrical principle show close agreement (correlation of 0.96 during 2.5 h of 5 min measurements). The sensor design described is durable and successful measurements in fair and disturbed weather have been obtained in air temperatures between -6 and 35 °C, relative humidity between 44% and 100%, fog, rain and snowfall. The uncertainty in conduction current density determinations is 0.20 pA m-2.

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