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Atmospheric electricity and correlated phenomenon

At any time, an estimated 2000 thunderstorms are lighting up the skies around the world. Combined, these storms produce approximately 10 lightning ashes per second, each one with a temperature of more than 30000ºC - hotter than the surface of the Sun. This paper describes some facts and interesting events about lightnings and a di erent kind of phenomena what would occur in atmosphere and stratosphere. All these electrical phenomena make part of a suggested global electric circuit and are connected to plasma physics. Nowadays the electrical circuit has called attention of scientists by the importance that it would have for the terrestrial climate and for satellites and spaceships that should go through the ionosphere.


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