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19. Interaction of Lightning Flashes with the Earth’s Atmosphere

verfasst von : Vernon Cooray

Erschienen in: An Introduction to Lightning

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

Thunderstorms and lightning flashes are processes that take place in the Earth’s atmosphere and they can modify it over both the short term and the long term. Thus, understanding the effects of thunderstorms and lightning in the atmosphere is a must, and these effects must be used as inputs in any atmospheric model created to understand the effects of human-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This chapter provides a brief description of the effects of lightning and thunderstorms in the atmosphere, which are of interest in climatology.

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Metadaten
Titel
Interaction of Lightning Flashes with the Earth’s Atmosphere
verfasst von
Vernon Cooray
Copyright-Jahr
2015
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8938-7_19