SUBJECT
Title
Atmospheric Physics 3
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
Brief history, the ionosphere, atmospheric electric circuit, atmospheric electricity in the fair weather zone and under thunderstorm, electrified nonthunderstorm clouds, electrical nature of thunderstorms, corona and point disharge, lightning, electromagnetic radiation from lightning, Schumann resonances, red sprites and blue jets.
Readings
- McGorman, D.R., and Rust, W.D., 1998: The electrical Nature of Storms. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 422 pp.
- Golde, R. H., 1977: Lightning: Volume 1, Physics of Lightning, Academic Press, Boston, 496 pp.