Ball Lightning A Popular Guide to a Longstanding Mystery in Atmospheric Electricity /

• Main Author: Boerner, Herbert (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Physics.; Atmospheric sciences.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Geophysics.; Popular Science in Physics.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Plasma Physics.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Ball Lightning: Observers' Tales
• The Search for Photographic Evidence
• A Bit of Philosophy, or What Has a Razor to Do with Ball Lightning?
• Organizing and Analyzing the Observations
• Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers
• Thunderstorms and Lightning
• BL: Well Documented Cases of Copious Production
• The Link Between Lightning Physics and Ball Lightning
• Some People Just Won't Believe It: The Skeptic's View
• Ball Lightning Theories
• BL Experiments
• Wrapping It All Up
• Appendix
• References.