The Earth's Electrical Environment (1986) / Chapter Skim
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In the lower atmosphere and most of the middle atmosphere, (, is a scalar, and the electric field and the current lie in the same direction. Above about 70 km, however, collisions between electrons and air molecules become infrequent enough that the bending of the electron path by the Earth's magnetic field becomes appreciable between collisions, and mo
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(12.1) in Chapter 12, this volume, except that in the middle atmosphere electrons come into consideration.
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of positive conductivity, and the other curves show the result of model calculations of the contributions of the electrons, positive ions, and negative ions.
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