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Title:
The earth's electric field : sources from sun to mud
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1st ed.
Publication Information:
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2013
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ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780123978868

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The Earth's Electric Field provides you with an integrated and comprehensive picture of the generation of the terrestrial electric fields, their dynamics and how they couple/propagate through the medium. The Earth's Electric Field provides basic principles of terrestrial electric field related topics, but also a critical summary of electric field related observations and their significance to the various related phenomena in the atmosphere. For the first time, Kelley brings together information on this topic in a coherent way, making it easy to gain a broad overview of the critical processes in an efficient way. If you conduct research in atmospheric science, physics, atmospheric chemistry, space plasma physics, and solar terrestrial physics, you will find this book to be essential reading.


Table of Contents

Prefacep. viii
1 Electric Field Generation Mechanismsp. 1
1.1 Introductionp. 2
1.2 Visual Effects of Electrical Phenomenap. 3
1.3 Generation of Electric Fieldsp. 10
1.4 Relativists Effectsp. 19
1.5 Electric Field Mappingp. 19
1.6 An Energy Theoremp. 25
1.7 Summaryp. 26
Referencesp. 26
2 Atmospheric Electricityp. 29
2.1 The Fair Weather Electric Fieldp. 30
2.2 Introduction to Cloud Chargingp. 37
2.3 The Lightning Dischargep. 41
2.4 Radiation from Lightningp. 42
2.5 Coupling to the Ionospherep. 43
2.6 Red Sprites, Elves, and the Jetsp. 47
2.7 Mapping of Magnetospheric DC Electric Fields to the Stratospherep. 48
Referencesp. 50
3 Collisionless Hydrodynamic Generators in a Planetary Atmospherep. 53
3.1 Introductionp. 54
3.2 Collisional Hydrodynamic Generation of Electric Fieldsp. 54
3.3 The Hydromagnetic Generator Source: The Restless Atmospherep. 70
3.4 Wave Generation of Electric Fieldsp. 83
Referencesp. 85
4 Electric Fields Generated by Solar Wind Interaction with the Magnetospherep. 87
4.1 Connection Between the IMF and the Earth's Magnetic Field for B Z Southp. 88
4.2 What Happens if B z Is Positive?p. 98
4.3 Penetration of Solar Wind Electric Fields Throughout the Inner Magnetospherep. 101
Referencesp. 105
5 The Earth's Magnetosphere: A Secondary Collisionless Magnetohydrodynamic Generatorp. 109
5.1 Earth's Rotation as an Electric Field Generatorp. 111
5.2 Magnetohydromagnetic Electric Field Generation Inside the Magnetospherep. 116
5.3 The Source of Region 2 Currentsp. 131
5.4 Penetration of High-Latitude Electric Fields to Low Latitudesp. 134
5.5 Secondary Neutral Atmospheric Generatorsp. 136
5.6 Parallel Electric Fieldsp. 141
Referencesp. 145
6 Wave-Related Electric Fieldsp. 149
6.1 The Wave Equationp. 151
6.2 Electromagnetic Wavesp. 153
6.3 Waves with ¿ ip. 155
6.4 Waves with ¿ Comparable to the Plasma Frequency and Propagating Parallel to the Magnetic Field or Without a Magnetic Fieldp. 160
6.5 Electrostatic Waves in the F Regionp. 167
6.6 Electrojet instabilitiesp. 174
6.7 Electrostatic Waves at Other Latitudesp. 180
6.8 On the General Application of Flute Instabilitiesp. 181
6.9 Space Weatherp. 184
Referencesp. 184
7 Electric Field Measurement Techniquesp. 187
7.1 Introductionp. 188
7.2 Basis for the Measurement Techniquesp. 188
7.3 ISR Techniquesp. 189
7.4 In Situ Measurementsp. 196
7.5 Barium Ion Cloud Measurementsp. 211
Referencesp. 213
Indexp. 215