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Ball Lightning: An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics
Mark Stenhoff
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Description for Ball Lightning: An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics
Hardback. Ball lightning is probably not hazardous, but may be a precursor of ordinary lightning. This book presents a scientific review of ball lightning. It provides a critical review of eyewitness observations of ball lightning and of evidence of its interaction with the environment. It draws conclusions about the characteristics of ball lightning. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 713.
Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame unquenched, Th'unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke, above, the smould'ring pine Stands a sad shattered trunk; and, stretched below, A lifeless group the blasted cattle lie. James Thompson, The Seasons (1727) have been investigating ball lightning for more than two decades. I published a ball lightning report in Nature in 1976 that received worldwide publicity and I consequently many people ... Read more
Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame unquenched, Th'unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke, above, the smould'ring pine Stands a sad shattered trunk; and, stretched below, A lifeless group the blasted cattle lie. James Thompson, The Seasons (1727) have been investigating ball lightning for more than two decades. I published a ball lightning report in Nature in 1976 that received worldwide publicity and I consequently many people ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
707g
Number of Pages
349
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306461507
SKU
V9780306461507
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About Mark Stenhoff
Formerly the scientific Director of the Ball Lightning Division of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), Mark Stenhoff has been investigating ball lightning for more than two decades. After publishing a ball lightning report in Nature in 1976 that received worldwide publicity, Stenhoff rapidly accumulated over 200 first-hand accounts of personal experiences a collection that has continued to grow ... Read more
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