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UNINA9910824550403321 |
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Titolo |
Lightning : properties, formation and types / / Matthew D. Wood, editor |
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Hauppauge, NY, : Nova Science Publishers, 2011 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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Earth sciences in the 21st century |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Lightning |
Atmospheric electricity |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- LIGHTNING PROPERTIES, FORMATION AND TYPES -- LIGHTNING PROPERTIES, FORMATION AND TYPES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 DYNAMICAL SELF-ORGANIZATION ACTING AS PHYSICAL BASIS OF THE BALL LIGHTNING PHENOMENON -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTS WITH RELEVANCE FOR THE BALL LIGHTNING -- CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF THE BALL LIGHTING -- EXPLANATION OF BALL LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIGHTNING AND ITS PAST AND FUTURE INVESTIGATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TYPES OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES -- 2.1. Lightning -- 2.2. Transient Luminous Events -- 2.3. Lightning in Dust and Volcanic Plumes -- 3. LIGHTNING DETECTION ON THE JOVIAN PLANETS -- 3.1. Jupiter -- 3.2. Saturn -- 3.3. Uranus and Neptune -- 4. THE CONTROVERSIAL CASE OF VENUS LIGHTNING -- 4.1. Electromagnetic Detection of Lightning-Related Signals -- 4.1.1. The Venera missions -- 4.1.2. Pioneer Venus Orbiter (PVO) -- 4.1.3. Venus Express -- 4.1.4. The Galileo and Cassini fly-bys -- 4.2. Detection of Optical Signals -- 5. AN EPISTOMOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW ON THE PROBLEM -- 6. PAST AND FUTURE INVESTIGATION OF TERRESTRIAL AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIGHTNING -- 6.1. Investigation of Terrestrial Lightning from Space -- 6.2. Future Missions and the Dual-Phenomenology Approach for Extraterrestrial Lightning Investigations -- 6.3. Laboratory Simulations -- 6.4. Ground-Based Radio Observations -- 6.5. Summary of Current and Future Space Mission for |
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