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An Overview of Earth’s Global Electric Circuit and Atmospheric Conductivity

  • Rycroft M
  • Harrison R
  • Nicoll K
  • et al.
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-87664-1_6
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Abstract

The Earth’s global atmospheric electric circuit depends on the upper and lower atmospheric boundaries formed by the ionosphere and the planetary surface. Thunderstorms and electrified rain clouds drive a DC current (∼1 kA) around the circuit, with...

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Rycroft, M. J., Harrison, R. G., Nicoll, K. A., & Mareev, E. A. (2008). An Overview of Earth’s Global Electric Circuit and Atmospheric Conductivity (pp. 83–105). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87664-1_6

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