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The Earth’s Electric Field

Book2014

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Michael C. Kelley

The Earth’s Electric Field

Book2014

 

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    Chapter 1 - Electric Field Generation Mechanisms

    Pages 1-27

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    Chapter 2 - Atmospheric Electricity

    Pages 29-52

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    Chapter 3 - Collisionless Hydrodynamic Generators in a Planetary Atmosphere

    Pages 53-86

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    Chapter 4 - Electric Fields Generated by Solar Wind Interaction with the Magnetosphere

    Pages 87-107

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    Chapter 5 - The Earth’s Magnetosphere: A Secondary Collisionless Magnetohydrodynamic Generator

    Pages 109-147

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    Chapter 6 - Wave-Related Electric Fields

    Pages 149-186

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    Chapter 7 - Electric Field Measurement Techniques

    Pages 187-214

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    Index

    Pages 215-219

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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 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.

Key Features

  • 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
  • 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

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ISBN

978-0-12-397886-8

Language

English

Published

2014

Copyright

Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

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Elsevier Science

Authors

Michael C. Kelley

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York