Researchers create a new model of the electric currents circulating throughout the atmosphere that will improve the accuracy of global climate models.
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Half of Atmospheric Joule Heating Is Due to Small Oscillations
Scientists use sounding rockets to show that small oscillations in electric fields can be just as important for atmospheric Joule heating as the presence of the electric field itself.
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Electrical Concrete Offers Green Alternative to Airport Deicers
The Federal Aviation Administration is testing conductive concrete as a replacement for water-polluting chemicals used to melt ice from airport tarmacs.
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What Causes Broadband Electrostatic Noise in Space?
Factors that generate electrostatic noise involve how electric fields compress magnetized plasmas.
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Underground Water Reserves Found in Hawaii's High Country
The newly discovered groundwater resource could be a source of geothermal energy in a place where electricity rates are the highest in the United States.
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Theodore Richard Madden (1925–2013)
Madden, an AGU Fellow and a lifelong professor of geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was fascinated with all things electromagnetic. He died on 11 November 2013 at age 88.