Ball Lightning [E-Book] : A Popular Guide to a Longstanding Mystery in Atmospheric Electricity / by Herbert Boerner.
Ball lightning is an enigma. These luminous objects that appear occasionally during thunderstorms and can reach several meters in diameter have been a mystery to science for about 200 years. Despite several thousands of reported observations, their nature is still unknown. In this book, well documen...
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Personal Name(s): | Boerner, Herbert, author |
Edition: |
1st edition 2019. |
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Springer,
2019
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Physical Description: |
XIV, 205 pages 57 illustrations, 49 illustrations in color (online resource) |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783030207830 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-20783-0 |
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- Introduction
- Ball Lightning: Observers' Tales
- The Search for Photographic Evidence
- A Bit of Philosophy, or What Has a Razor to Do with Ball Lightning?
- Organizing and Analyzing the Observations
- Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers
- Thunderstorms and Lightning
- BL: Well Documented Cases of Copious Production
- The Link Between Lightning Physics and Ball Lightning
- Some People Just Won't Believe It: The Skeptic's View
- Ball Lightning Theories
- BL Experiments
- Wrapping It All Up
- Appendix
- References.