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Electric winds remove the components of water from Venus's upper atmosphere.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Venus's Unexpected, Electrifying Water Loss

by Mark Zastrow 20 July 20164 May 2022

New research shows that an electric field surrounding Venus is stripping its atmosphere of water—and the same phenomenon may plague exoplanets scientists hope might be habitable.

A branching bolt of lightning strikes Moscow.
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Scientists Find Dead Lightning Branches That Come Back to Life

by M. Gannon 17 May 201613 April 2023

The detached bursts of brilliance might explain why the lowest point of a lightning bolt will sometimes suddenly brighten by up to 50% and double its speed as it hurtles to Earth.

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Considering Atmospheric Electricity in Climate Models

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 7 April 201610 December 2022

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

by A. K. Higginson 29 February 201624 October 2022

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.

Posted inNews

Electrical Concrete Offers Green Alternative to Airport Deicers

by S. Kelleher 29 January 20167 March 2022

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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Lightning "Impulses" Improve Models of Global Electrical Circuit

by Mark Zastrow 19 August 201513 April 2023

New simulations of how thunderstorms drive electrical currents through the Earth's atmosphere combine precision with computational speed.

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Gaseous Planets May Have Huge Luminous Rings Caused by Lightning

by Mark Zastrow 15 July 201513 April 2023

What business do elves have in the upper atmospheres of gas giants? Plenty, it seems. The enormous ring-shaped phenomena triggered by lightning may occur on Jupiter, Saturn, and exoplanets.

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What Causes Broadband Electrostatic Noise in Space?

by J. Orwig 25 February 201519 January 2023

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

by L. Willoughby 23 January 20157 March 2022

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)

by E. Williams, N. Madden, J. Madden and H. Madden 15 December 20145 May 2022

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.

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