Earth's Electrical Environment

Geophysics Study Committee, Geophysics Research Forum, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 OVERVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS; 3 1 Lightning Phenomenology; 4 2 Physics of Lightning; 5 3 Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning; 6 4 Acoustic Radiations from Lightning; 7 5 Application of Advances in Lightning Research to Lightning Protection; 8 6 The Role of Lightning in the Chemistry of the Atmosphere; 9 7 Thunderstorm Origins, Morphology, and Dynamics; 10 8 The Electrical Structure of Thunderstorms; 11 9 Charging Mechanisms in Clouds and Thunderstorms; 12 10 Models of the Development of the Electrical Structure of Clouds; 13 11 Atmospheric Electricity in the Planetary Boundary Layer; 14 12 Electrical Structure from 0 to 30 Kilometers; 15 13 Electrical Structure of the Middle Atmosphere; 16 14 Upper-Atmosphere Electric-Field Sources; 17 15 The Global Atmospheric-Electrical Circuit; 18 16 Telluric Currents: The Natural Environment and Interactions with Man-Made Systems; 19 INDEX