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 thundersto...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liu, Chuntao, Williams, Earle R., Zipser, Edward J., Burns, Gary
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60339