some deep thoughts
Posted by
Mike_Doran on 7/17/2009, 6:04 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPs7-5feq-M
I can't remember exactly how the exchange went, but it was something like:
Tropical storms are the most electrical events on earth.
No. They have few strikes because of how convection processes work (except for in the high towers).
I am not talking about strikes around the disk--but talking about how storms are capacitive couplings.
Anyway, this exchange was confusing at best, I suppose.
Tropical storms hold charges much like a capaciter holds charges. When storms lose their organization, they then lose the size of the 'plates' that hold the charges, and with that loss discharge occurs. This is how tropical storms are the most electrical events on earth. The coupled energy also presents fields which alter cloud microphysics and offer feedbacks which aid in RI.
The 'deep' part here, which is why I can make assertions, for instance, that the number of spotless days in the past year or so can contribute to a 'down' year, or the article linked by Jack how ENSO is related to solar cycles and so forth, is that not only does the storm act as a capaciter, but on a grander scale, the earth itself is a large capaciter, which can be relatively charged or not. Consider that the charging and discharging of storms would have a cummulative affect and some of the charges get placed and trapped deep inside the earth's surface. This is again why an event like Chixculub would have been so significant electrically, having a conductive puncture wound probably on both ends of the earth, and located in both instances in the tropics, where ongoing high levels of lightning and discharges and charges of storms would occur and charges would leak or short to the earth surface.
Karma, BTW, I should have never made fun of cantrakker in the past . . .
That is all.
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