Ball lightning :an unsolved problem in atmospheric physics
- 作者: Stenhoff, Mark.
- 出版: New York : Kluwer Academic ©2002.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: SCIENCE , Ball lightning. , Foudre globulaire. , Earth SciencesMeteorology & Climatology. , Electronic books. , SCIENCE Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
- ISBN: 0306470926 , 9780306470929
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-343) and index. The Study of Ball Lightning -- Thunderstorms and Lightning -- Phenomena that May Be Mistaken for Ball Lightning -- Assessment of Electrical, Thermal, and Mechanical Risks -- Assessment of Risk of Death or Injury by Ball Lightning -- Assessment of Risk of Buildings -- Assessment of Risk to Aircraft -- Assessment of Risk to Trees -- Photographs and Videotapes -- The Existence of Ball Lightning -- Ball Lightning Theories and Experiments -- Models Based on an Internal Energy Source -- Models Based on an External Energy Source -- Conclusions and Recommendations.
- 摘要: This is the only scientific review of ball lightning in print at the present time with an up-to-date coverage of theory. This book provides a critical review of eyewitness observations of ball lightning and of evidence of its interaction with the environment. Ball lightning is probably not hazardous, but may be a precursor of ordinary lightning. The conclusion is that ball lightning has lower energy than generally assumed and that some theories are thus redundant. After critically reviewing the current theory, recommendations are provided for future research. This specialist book draws new conclusions about the characteristics of ball lightning and relates these to current theories.
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Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame unquenched, Th’unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke, above, the smould’ring pine Stands a sad shattered trunk; and, stretched below, A lifeless group the blasted cattle lie. James Thompson, “The Seasons” (1727) have been investigating ball lightning for more than two decades. I published a ball lightning report in Nature in 1976 that received worldwide publicity and I consequently many people wrote to me with accounts of their own experiences. Within a very short time, I had accumulated about 200 firsthand accounts, and the file has continued to grow steadily since then. Several things impressed me. Few of those who wrote to me had any detailed foreknowledge of ball lightning at the time of their observation. Nonetheless, once reports of other phenomena such as St. Elmo’s fire had been eliminated, the remaining descriptions were remarkably consistent. Furthermore, nearly all who contacted me were keen to have an explanation of what they had seen and seemed entirely sincere.
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