Stable spherically symmetric static charge separated configurations in the atmosphere: Implications on ball lightning and earthquake lights

Journal of Electrostatics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 638-640

  Tennakone, K ^a  

^a WAYAMBA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Ball lightning; Corona discharge; Earthquake lights; Electrostatic charge separation; Virial theorem

Indexed keywords

BALL LIGHTNING; CORONA DISCHARGE; EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS; ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE SEPARATION; VIRIAL THEOREMS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTROSTATICS; LIGHTNING;

SEPARATION;

EID: 80053385789     PISSN: 03043886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elstat.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Singer S. The Nature of Ball Lightning 1978, Plenum Press, New York.
2. Stenhoff M. Ball Lightning: An Unresolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics 1999, Plenum, New York.
3. Barry J.D. Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning - Extreme Forms of Atmospheric Electricity 1980, Plenum, New York.
4. Cole C., Jones J.E. On stability of concentric clouds of bipolar gaseous ions. J. Electrostat. 2002, 56:155-182.
5. Tennakone K. Ball lightning elusive behavior depending on proton conductivity. Curr. Sci. 2006, 90:1247-1250.
6. Mesenyashin A.I. Electrostatic and bubble nature of ball lightning. Appl. Phys. Lett. 1991, 58:2713-2715.
7. Stephan K.D. Electrostatic charge bounds for ball lightning models. Phys. Scr. 2008, 77:35504-35505.
8. Kaiser R., Lortz D. Ball lightning as an example of magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium. Phys. Rev. E 1995, 52:3034-3049.
9. Finkelstein D., Rubinstein J. Ball lightning. Phys. Rev. 1964, 135:A390-A395.
10. Hughes S. Green fire balls and ball lightning. Proc. Roy. Soc. A 2010, 467:1442-1448.
11. Abrahamson J., Dennis J. Ball lightning caused by oxidation of nanoparticle networks from normal lightning strikes. Nature 2000, 519:519-521.
12. St-Laurent F., Derr J.S., Freund F.T. Earthquake lights and the stress-activation of positive hole charges in rocks. Phys. Chem. Earth 2006, 31:305-312.
13. Kanogawa K., Ofuroton H., Ohtsuki Y.H. Earthquake light 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan. Atmos. Res. 2005, 76:438-449.
14. Fidani C. The earthquake light (EQL) of the 6 April 2009 Aquila earthquake in Central Italy. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 2010, 10:967-978.
15. (accessed 04.07.11). http://www.youtube.com/watch%3f%3dEhvKKUDCAgfw&NR%3d1.
16. Chandrasekhar S., Fermi E. Gravitational stability in the presence of a magnetic field. Astrophys. J. 1953, 118:116-141.