Differential mill for measuring electric fields and conductivities in thunderclouds

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1970 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:pure and applied geophysics, volume 80, pages 359-370 (issn: 0033-4553, eissn: 1420-9136,

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Authors: W. H. Evans; R. L. Peck;

doi: 10.1007/bf00880220

Differential mill for measuring electric fields and conductivities in thunderclouds

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A differential rotating mill for the measurement of electric fields has been designed and built. The instrument was specifically designed to be insensitive to the effects of space charge and frictional charging so that it could operate in the environment of an active thundercloud. The electric field range of the device is 100 to 250,000 volts per meter, (however, corona should occur before the maximum measurable field is reached) and the conductivity range is approximately (depending on the electric field) 10−11 to 10−13 mhos/meter.

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