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Electric fields below clouds
Author(s) -
Chalmers J. A.
Publication year - 1944
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49707030404
Subject(s) - electric field , meteorology , atmospheric electricity , environmental science , physics , atmospheric sciences , space charge , mechanics , computational physics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , electron
It is shown that the discrepancy between the measured electric fields below clouds and the calculated fields cannot be removed by considering either the charges of rain drops or vertical air currents to decrease the space charge.