The Effect of Artificially Produced Space Charge on the Electrification of Clouds

Bradley, Wayne E.; Semonin, Richard G.

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Title

The Effect of Artificially Produced Space Charge on the Electrification of Clouds

Author(s)

• Bradley, Wayne E.
• Semonin, Richard G.

Issue Date

1967

Keyword(s)

• precipitation formation
• electrical charge

Abstract

An investigation was made of the influence of an artificially produced space charge on the lower atmosphere and on the formation of precipitation. Examples are given of the perturbations in the atmospheric potential gradient and space charge resulting from the corona discharge of 45 kilometers (km) of high voltage line. It was shown that approximately 17 percent of the cumulus clouds that passed over the 130 km2 charge source became electrified. During the 1962 season of operation there was a higher frequency of first echoes but less precipitation in the plume of charge area downwind of the wire than in the area surrounding the wire. The statistical significance of the results of the precipitation study is low, but the data indicate that there was not a marked increase in the precipitation immediately downwind of the artificial charge source.

Publisher

Illinois State Water Survey

Series/Report Name or Number

ISWS Contract Report CR 083

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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