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The earth's electric field : sources from sun to mud /
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 rel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waltham, MA :
Elsevier,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; The Earth's Electric Field: Sources from Sun to Mud; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Electric Field Generation Mechanisms; 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; 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 Jets2.7. Mapping of Magnetospheric DC Electric Fields to the Stratosphere; References; Chapter 3: Collisionless Hydrodynamic Generators in a Planetary Atmosphere; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Collisional Hydrodynamic Generation of Electric Fields; 3.2.1. Upper Thermospheric Generators (The F-Region Ionosphere); 3.2.2. The Global E-Region Electric Field Generator; 3.2.3. The Equatorial Electrojet; 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 Magnetosphere4.1. 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; 5.1. Earth� s Rotation as an Electric Field Generator; 5.2. Magnetohydromagnetic Electric Field Generation Inside the Magnetosphere; 5.2.1. Steady Bz South; 5.2.2. Cranking Up Bz South.
- 5.2.3. Electric Field Effects on the Atmosphere5.2.4. Interaction Between the Ring Current and the Plasmasphere: With a Temperature Difference of 300,000,000 K, Somethin ... ; 5.2.5. Steady Bz North; 5.2.6. Finite Bz South for Some Time Goes to Bz North at t=0; 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; 5.5.1. Disturbance Dynamo Electric Fields; 5.5.2. Flywheel-Generated Electric Fields; 5.6. Parallel Electric Fields; References; Chapter 6: Wave-Related Electric Fields.