subject

Atmospheric Physics 3

lecturers

Dr. Ács Ferenc, associate professor

credits

3+0=3

period

4

curriculum

Brief history, the ionosphere, atmospheric electric circuit, atmospheric electricity in the fair weather zone and under thunderstorm, electrified nonthunderstorm clouds, electrical nature of thunderstorms, corona and point disharge, lightning, electromagnetic radiation from lightning, Schumann resonances, red sprites and blue jets. 

literature

McGorman, D.R., and Rust, W.D., 1998: The electrical Nature of Storms.  Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 422 pp.

form of tuition

lectures

mode of assessment

oral exam, reporting