
The Earth's Electric Field
Sources from Sun to Mud
Michael C. Kelley(Author)
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 14. November 2013
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-12-397886-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"It presents a comprehensive introduction to the complex subject of the electrical interaction between the earth and its surrounding space environment and should serve as a good introduction to this subject for advanced geophysics undergraduates or beginning graduate students." --The Leading Edge, June 2014More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Atmospheric scientists and researchers specializing in atmospheric physics
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
Illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-397886-8 (9780123978868)
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E-Book
09/2013
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Content
Chapter 1: Electric Field Generation MechanismsChapter 2: Atmospheric ElectricityChapter 3: Collisionless Hydrodynamic Generators in a Planetary AtmosphereChapter 4: Electric Fields Generated by Solar Wind Interaction with the MagnetosphereChapter 5: The Earth's Magnetosphere: A Secondary Collisionless Magnetohydrodynamic GeneratorChapter 6: The Electric Field of Waves in a Magnetized PlasmaReferences