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Charge separation in a Florida thunderstorm
Author(s) -
Hill R. D.
Publication year - 1984
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.49711046627
Subject(s) - separation (statistics) , thunderstorm , storm , meteorology , aerodynamics , simple (philosophy) , environmental science , charge (physics) , atmospheric sciences , mechanics , physics , computer science , particle physics , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning
A simple explanation of the location and movement of the breakdown region in a Florida storm is given in terms of the separation resulting from dynamical equilibria between aerodynamic and electrostatic forces on charged particles.