Universal Aspects of Atmospheric Electricity
Oscar Gish · American Meteorological Society eBooks · 1951
One becomes aware of weather through sensibility to heat or cold, calm or storm, brightness or gloom, but one’s unaided senses do not reveal the ever-present universal aspects of atmospheric electricity. Of course one sees lightning and hears thunder, but these are heralds of an impetuous, stormy aspect of atmospheric electricity which is not universal. Lightning is seldom seen in the polar regions and even in temperate latitudes it is seen only a small fraction of the time. The study by Brooks [8] indicates that on one-fourth of the earth’s surface thunder may be heard on less than one day in a hundred. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.