The Earth's Electric Field [electronic resource] : Sources from Sun to Mud
Kelley, Michael C.
Burlington : Elsevier Science,
2013.
 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 cri
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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
6.1. The Wave Equation6.2. Electromagnetic Waves; 6.2.1. Waves with ω6.7. Electrostatic Waves at Other Latitudes
 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 cri