Ball Lightning A Popular Guide to a Longstanding Mystery in Atmospheric Electricity /
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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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2025.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. 2025. |
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| Acceso en liña: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02164-9 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Ball Lightning: Observers’ Tales
- Chapter 3: The Search for Photographic Evidence
- Chapter 4: A Bit of Philosophy, or What Has a Razor to Do with Ball Lightning?
- Chapter 5: Organizing and Analyzing The Observations
- Chapter 6: Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers
- Chapter 7: Thunderstorms and Lightning
- Chapter 8: BL: Well Documented Cases of Copious Production
- Chapter 9: The Link Between Lightning Physics and Ball Lightning
- Chapter 10: Some People Just Won’t Believe It: The Skeptic’s View
- Chapter 11: Ball Lightning Theories
- Chapter 12: BL Experiments
- Chapter 13: Wrapping It All Up.