Current research on atmospheric electricity focuses mainly on lightning, particularly high-energy particles and transient luminous events, and the role of non-thunderstorm electrical processes in weather and climate.
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Even away from thunderstorms, atmospheric electricity can be highly variable, but, generally, the electric field is enhanced in fogs and dust whereas the atmospheric electrical conductivity is diminished.
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Tesla also proposed to use the atmospheric electrical circuit to transceive wireless energy over large distances, but no feasible apparatus to extract energy from atmospheric electricity has been built.
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It had an advantage, that it could not be permanently injured or set out of adjustment by any exceptionally strong stray signal, such as those due to atmospheric electricity.
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Ronalds endeavoured to employ his atmospheric electricity equipment and magnetographs in a detailed study to understand the cause of the anomalies but had insufficient resources to complete his work.
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Toaldo, like his contemporaries, Divisch and Giovanni Battista Beccaria ( both priests ), gave special attention to the study of atmospheric electricity and to the means of protecting buildings against lightning.
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As a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and teacher at Stanford University, he gained expertise in the conduction of electricity in gases, the properties of ions, and atmospheric electricity.
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Peltier's papers, which are numerous, are devoted in great part to atmospheric electricity, waterspouts, cyanometry and polarization of sky-light, the temperature of water in the spheroidal state, and the boiling-point at great elevations.
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Lightning detection systems showed a burst of atmospheric electricity off the northeast coast Monday afternoon as the major winter storm that will batter much of New England on Tuesday began to intensify rapidly.
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Atmospheric electricity involves both thunderstorms, which create lightning bolts to rapidly discharge huge amounts of atmospheric charge stored in storm clouds, with a related phenomenon of continual electrification of the air due to ionisation from cosmic rays and natural radioactivity.
