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The Earth’s Electric Field
Sources from Sun to Mud
1st Edition - September 21, 2013
Author: Michael C. Kelley
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780123978868
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eBook ISBN:9780123978837
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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.
The only book on the physics of terrestrial electric fields and their generation mechanisms, propagation and dynamics–making it essential reading for scientists conducting research in upper atmospheric, ionospheric, magnetospheric and space weather
Covers the processes related to electric field generation and electric field coupling in the upper atmosphere along with providing new insights about electric fields generated by sources from sun to mud
Focuses on real-world implications—covering topics such as space weather, earthquakes, the effect on power grids, and the effect on GPS and communication devices
Atmospheric scientists and researchers specializing in atmospheric physics
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1. Electric Field Generation Mechanisms
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Visual Effects of Electrical Phenomena
1.3 Generation of Electric Fields
1.4 Relativistic Effects
1.5 Electric Field Mapping
1.6 An Energy Theorem
1.7 Summary
References
Chapter 2. Atmospheric Electricity
Abstract
2.1 The Fair Weather Electric Field
2.2 Introduction to Cloud Charging
2.3 The Lightning Discharge
2.4 Radiation from Lightning
2.5 Coupling to the Ionosphere
2.6 Red Sprites, Elves, and the Jets
2.7 Mapping of Magnetospheric DC Electric Fields to the Stratosphere
References
Chapter 3. Collisionless Hydrodynamic Generators in a Planetary Atmosphere
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Collisional Hydrodynamic Generation of Electric Fields
3.3 The Hydromagnetic Generator Source: The Restless Atmosphere
3.4 Wave Generation of Electric Fields
References
Chapter 4. Electric Fields Generated by Solar Wind Interaction with the Magnetosphere
Abstract
4.1 Connection Between the IMF and the Earth’s Magnetic Field for Bz South
4.2 What Happens if Bz Is Positive?
4.3 Penetration of Solar Wind Electric Fields Throughout the Inner Magnetosphere
References
Chapter 5. The Earth’s Magnetosphere: A Secondary Collisionless Magnetohydrodynamic Generator
Abstract
5.1 Earth’s Rotation as an Electric Field Generator
5.2 Magnetohydromagnetic Electric Field Generation Inside the Magnetosphere
5.3 The Source of Region 2 Currents
5.4 Penetration of High-Latitude Electric Fields to Low Latitudes
5.5 Secondary Neutral Atmospheric Generators
5.6 Parallel Electric Fields
References
Chapter 6. Wave-Related Electric Fields
Abstract
6.1 The Wave Equation
6.2 Electromagnetic Waves
6.3 Waves with Ωi<ω<Ωe
6.4 Waves with ω Comparable to the Plasma Frequency and Propagating Parallel to the Magnetic Field or Without a Magnetic Field
6.5 Electrostatic Waves in the F Region
6.6 Electrojet Instabilities
6.7 Electrostatic Waves at Other Latitudes
6.8 On the General Application of Flute Instabilities