Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Apr 2014)

Brief Communication: Earthquake–cloud coupling through the global atmospheric electric circuit

  • R. G. Harrison,
  • K. L. Aplin,
  • M. J. Rycroft

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-773-2014
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 4
pp. 773 – 777

Abstract

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We illustrate how coupling could occur between surface air and clouds via the global electric circuit – through Atmospheric Lithosphere–Ionosphere Charge Exchange (ALICE) processes – in an attempt to develop a physical understanding of the possible relationships between earthquakes and clouds.