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Global surface temperatures and the atmospheric electrical circuitTo monitor future global temperature trends, it would be extremely useful if parameters nonlinearly related to surface temperature could be found, thereby amplifying any warming signal that may exist. Evidence that global thunderstorm activity is nonlinearly related to diurnal, seasonal and interannual temperature variations is presented. Since global thunderstorm activity is also well correlated with the earth's ionospheric potential, it appears that variations of ionospheric potential, that can be measured at a single location, may be able to supply valuable information regarding global surface temperature fluctuations. The observations presented enable a prediction that a 1 percent increase in global surface temperatures may result in a 20 percent increase in ionospheric potential.
Document ID
19930067217
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Price, Colin
(Columbia Univ.; NASA, Goddard Inst. for Space Studies, New York, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
July 9, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: 20
Issue: 13
ISSN: 0094-8276
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
93A51214
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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