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The subject of cloud electricity is quite massive and complex in its own right and has in addition many controversial aspects. Consequently, we shall make no attempt here to provide a comprehensive treatment of the entire subject; rather, we shall restrict ourselves primarily to summaries of sorne 0 bserved electrical properties of clouds and the particles contained within them, to an outline of the major cloud charging mechanisms, and to a consideration of electrical effects on cloud microphysical processes. The topics of lightning, current budgets, and rneasurement techniques are omitted altogether.
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Pruppacher, H., Klett, J. (2010). Cloud Electricity. In: Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48100-0_18
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