Twentieth century secular decrease in the atmospheric potential gradient

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2002, Pages

  Harrison, Giles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COSMOLOGY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

ELECTRICAL PARAMETER; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; IONOSPHERIC POTENTIAL; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS;

EID: 0037101691     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL014878     Document Type: Article

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