Text: International Conference on the Universal Aspects of Atmospheric Electricity, 4th This is the second of two volumes containing papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Universal Aspects of Atmospheric Electricity, held in Tokyo in 1968. This volume contains the proceedings of sessions five to eight of the conference, including edited discussions on the papers. The volume includes 10 papers on the monitoring of global thunderstorm activity (with particular interest in satellite observations and lightning flash counters) and 8 on the simulation of atmospheric electrical phenomena. Two sections (over half the book) are on the electrical properties of the stratosphere, ionosphere and interplanetary space, and the methods for measuring these properties. A novel suggestion emerges from a development of electrohydrodynamic phenomena by Carstiou (p.277) that thunderclouds might represent clusters of magnetically polar particles. Tokyo, 1968. Planetary electrodynamics: Proceedings. 2 vols. London: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1969. 503 p.

See Also: atmospheric electricity, atmospheric phenomena, thunderstorms, weather, lightning.

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