An overview of earth's global electric circuit and atmospheric conductivity

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 137, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 83-105

  Rycroft, Michael J ^a,b   Harrison, R Giles ^c   Nicoll, Keri A ^c   Mareev, Evgeny A ^d  

^a CAESAR Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Atmospheric electric circuit; Conductivity models; Electrostatic modelling; Fair weather observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LIGHTNING; STORMS; THUNDERSTORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRIC CIRCUIT; CONDUCTIVITY MODELS; DC CURRENTS; ELECTROSTATIC MODELLING; FAIR WEATHER OBSERVATIONS; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRIC CIRCUIT; GLOBAL CIRCUIT; GLOBAL ELECTRIC CIRCUIT; MOLECULAR CLUSTER IONS; PLANETARY SURFACES; RAIN CLOUDS; SURFACE CONDUCTIVITY;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 49749148423     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-008-9368-6     Document Type: Article

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