Corona from Ice, Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Suppression.

Abstract

Five distinct avenues of research relating to thunderstorm electrification are presented: Airborne Studies of Thunderstorm Electrification details some results of the three-year Thunderstorm Research International Project (TRIP); Charge Transfer Accompanying Collisions Between Hailstones and Supercooled Raindrops in the Presence of an Electric Field; Charge Transfer Accompanying Individual Collisions Between Ice Particles, Surface Potential Steps and Their Role in Thunderstorm Electrification; The Growth of a Positive Streamer System; Laboratory and Theoretical Studies of the Raingush Phenomenon. The last four sections above are summaries of laboratory experiments conducted at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA093128

Entities

People

  • J. Latham

Organizations

  • University of Manchester

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charge Density
  • Charge Transfer
  • Clouds
  • Collisions
  • Cumulonimbus Clouds
  • Drops
  • Electric Charge
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrical Properties
  • Equations
  • Generators
  • Hail
  • Hydrometeors
  • Measurement
  • New Mexico
  • Precipitation
  • Thunderstorms

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.