The Earth’s Electric Field
Sources from Sun to Mud

Provides a clear and concise description of the critical processes related to the electric field of the earth

Michael C. Kelley (Author)

9780123978868, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 14 November 2013

232 pages, 60 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.49 kg

"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 2014

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.

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

Subject Areas: Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism [PHK], Physics [PH]