Planetary-Scale Variability of the Fair-Weather Vertical Electric Field in the Stratosphere
- 1 October 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (14) , 1398-1401
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.1398
Abstract
This paper reports the discovery of short-term variability in the planetary-scale-size vertical electric field measured in the stratosphere. Measurements were made on superpressure balloons at 26-km altitude separated by up to 3000 km. Data are presented which show that the large-scale current system is variable, with twice the amplitude of the average diurnal variations, on time scales of tens of minutes to hours.Keywords
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