• Corpus ID: 118579450

A New Mechanism for the Maintenance of Fair Weather Electric Field and Cloud Electrification

@article{Selvam1999ANM,
  title={A New Mechanism for the Maintenance of Fair Weather Electric Field and Cloud Electrification},
  author={A. M. Selvam and A. S. Ramachandra Murty and G.K.Manohar and S.S.Kandalgaonkar and Bh. V. Ramana Murty},
  journal={arXiv: General Physics},
  year={1999}
}

• A. Selvam, A. Murty, +2 authors B. Murty
• Published 4 October 1999
• Physics, Environmental Science
• arXiv: General Physics

The exact physical mechanism responsible for the generation of fair weather electric field is not clearly understood. Some of the recent remarkable observations showed evidence for the horizontal fields in the magnetosphere and ionosphere which penetrate at least into the stratosphere and perhaps into the troposphere. In the present paper a gravity wave feed back mechanism for the coupling of the troposphere and the ionosphere has been discussed. The physical mechanism proposed can offer an alternate explanation for the atmospheric electrical phenomena during fair and disturbed weather. Refs.