Thunderstorm Electrification

Radar Tests of the Precipitation Hypothesis for Thunderstorm Electrification

The contribution of falling precipitation to thunderstorm electrification is examined from an energy standpoint by means of radar measurements of precipitation. The gravitational power associated with falling precipitation is compared with estimates of the thunderstorm electrical output as a test of a causal relationship between these two quantities. The relative importance of the gravitational...

Charge and mass transfer in ice-ice collisions: Experimental observations of a mechanism in thunderstorm electrification

A microphysical mechanism that may be important in the electrification of thunderstorms is probed in an experimental study of collisional charging of ice surfaces. The study examined mass and charge transfer in single collisions between two ice samples and their dependence on growth, temperature, impact strength, and time delay between impacts. The polarity is consistent with earlier esults in ...

A severe thunderstorm climatology for Australia and associated thunderstorm environments

Rural Electrification

Electrification and Renewable Energy Generation

1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518055, China 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kettering University, 1700 University Avenue, Flint, MI 48504, USA 3School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, No. 301, Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, China 4Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced...