Lifetime of the electric energy in the global atmospheric circuit
Having calculated the total electrostatic energy of the atmosphere and the total mean rate of energy dissipation, one can easily estimate the lifetime of electric energy in the atmosphere,which turns out to be very small – from about 2 minutes to 30 seconds, depending on the assumptions on the control parameters of the global electric circuit. In particular the energy lifetime is less than the relaxation time of the global condenser and field relaxation time near the ground surface. It is explained by the fact that the main contribution to the total energy and its dissipative rate are connected to the altitudes of active parts of thunderstorm clouds and conductivity height scale.
E. A. Mareev S.V. Anisimov
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, RF O.Yu. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RF
国际会议
第13届国际大气电学会议(The 13th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity)
北京
英文
2007-08-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）