Diurnal Variations of Global Thunderstorms and Electrified Shower Clouds and Their Contribution to the Global Electrical Circuit

The long-standing mainstay of support for C. T. R. Wilson's global circuit hypothesis is the similarity between the diurnal variation of thunderstorm days in universal time and the Carnegie curve of electrical potential gradient. This rough agreement has sustained the widespread view that thund...

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Main Authors: Liu, Chuntao (Author), Williams, Earle R. (Contributor), Zipser, Edward J. (Author), Burns, Gary (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society, 2010-12-21T17:31:05Z.
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