Electrical Processes in Atmospheres

These Proceedings are published to give a full account of the Fifth International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity held in September 1974 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps in Germany. Traditionally, the Proceedings of these Conferences have served as reference books updating the textbooks and monographs on Atmospheric Electricity. As treated by these Conferences, Atmos pheric Electricity covers all aspects of this science, including the processes and problems which reach out into the Earth's environment as well as analogous processes on other planets and on the Moon. A history of these Conferences, an account of their purpose, and an outline of the scope and the preparation is to be found at the end of these Proceedings. There, also the Business Meetings of the involved organizations are mentioned. The Proceedings closely follow the original program and are accordingly organized into "Sessions". The papers printed in each "Session" in this book are the ones which were accepted for the sessions of the Conference with the same numbers and titles. Only the two "Special Sessions" have been given different numbers in the Proceedings, i.e. 2a and 10. In principle, all papers which were accepted by the Executive Panel either for full oral presentation or for printing in the Proceedings only, have in fact been included in these Proceedings, whether they were presented or not. In the latter case, a special note is made to explain the absence of a discussion.

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Session 1 Ions, Basic Research.- Session 2 Ions, Applied Research: Atmospheric Electricity and Meteorology.- Session 2a Application of Atmospheric Electricity Concepts and Methods to Other Parts of Meteorology/Film on Electric Fields at the Ground Under a Thunderstorm.- Session 3 Principles and Problems of Instrumentation, Methods of Calibration, Data Handling.- Session 4 Cloud Physics, Non-Convective Clouds and Precipitation.- Session 5 Thunderstorms and Showers.- Session 6 Global Circuit and Ten-Year Program.- Session 7 Atmosphere-Space Coupling, Solar-Terrestrial Effects, Atmospheric Electricity on Other Celestial Bodies.- Session 8a Physics of Lightning and Sferics Part I.- Session 8b Physics of Lightning and Sferics Part II.- Session 9 Late Additions.- Session 10 Atmospheric Electricity Activities of the Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research.- Concluding Remarks.- Banquet-Address.- Report on the Fifth Conference.- Author Index.- Index of Chemicals in Symbols.- Index of Localities and Areas.- Index of Institutes. Agencies. Organizations.