HR: 1340h
AN: S33B-1319    [Abstracts]
TI: Sources of EMF in Near Earth and Planetary Environments
AU: * McCanney, J M
EM: jmccanney@usinternet.com
AF: INDEPENDENT SCIENTIST, P O BOX 186, MOUND, MN 55364, United States
AB: The realization that extensive electrical activates occur in and above the troposphere, extending to the ionosphere and ultimately coupling to the magnetosphere have raised the theoretical and experimental questions regarding the sources of EMF which create the observed effects. The current work has identified 17 Local Electrical Batteries (LEBs), which provide the electrical EMF that can be linked to the observed effects of Sprites, Elves, etc. and which additionally are shown to directly power the tropospheric storm systems and counter-rotating jet streams (rotating in the easterly direction in the northern and southern latitudes and westerly near the equator). The path of these sources of EMF can be followed from the passing solar wind through "tunnels" that end in electrical currents that pass into the atmosphere via the ionosphere to storm cloud systems in the lower atmosphere. These are the sources of electrical energy that power the severe lower atmospheric storm systems such as hurricanes and tornadoes. The model for these storm systems is included. The connection is made theoretically with the solar wind that drives the 17 identified LEBs. The dynamics of small dust particles including water molecules and droplets in the LEB environment shows that these particles become electrically charged and their Debye shielding takes on a new form which is extended from that of the neutral environment typically considered in previous theoretical models. An attempt is made to solve the fundamental problem of the source of energy that drives these systems. Previous meteorological models considered that the energy sources for lightning and other energetic phenomenon came from within the storm systems. The current work shows that the original sources of EMF are actually in the passing solar wind. Additionally, the effects of moons and their positions relative to the planet and solar wind are shown to contribute to the overall discharge phenomenon. A connection is made between these energy sources and earth quake and volcanic "trigger" mechanisms.
DE: 7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction (1217, 1242)
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting