Dust-devil effect

From Glossary of Meteorology



dust-devil effect

In atmospheric electricity, a rather sudden and short-lived change of the vertical component of the atmospheric electric field that accompanies the passage of a dust devil near an instrument sensitive to the vertical gradient.

Such changes may be either positive or negative and the charge is probably produced by triboelectrification.


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