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Ball lightninga popular guide to a longstanding mystery in atmospheric electricity /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ball lightningby Herbert Boerner.
Reminder of title:	a popular guide to a longstanding mystery in atmospheric electricity /
Author:	Boerner, Herbert.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xvi, 252 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Ball lightning.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02164-9
ISBN:	9783032021649$q(electronic bk.)

Ball lightninga popular guide to a longstanding mystery in atmospheric electricity /
Boerner, Herbert.

Ball lightninga popular guide to a longstanding mystery in atmospheric electricity /[electronic resource] :by Herbert Boerner. - Second edition. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xvi, 252 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ball Lightning: Observers' Tales -- Chapter 3: The Search for Photographic Evidence -- Chapter 4: A Bit of Philosophy, or What Has a Razor to Do with Ball Lightning? -- Chapter 5: Organizing and Analyzing The Observations -- Chapter 6: Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers -- Chapter 7: Thunderstorms and Lightning -- Chapter 8: BL: Well Documented Cases of Copious Production -- Chapter 9: The Link Between Lightning Physics and Ball Lightning -- Chapter 10: Some People Just Won't Believe It: The Skeptic's View -- Chapter 11: Ball Lightning Theories -- Chapter 12: BL Experiments -- Chapter 13: Wrapping It All Up.

Ball lightning is an enigma. These luminous objects that appear occasionally during thunderstorms and can reach several meters in diameter have been a mystery to science for about 200 years. Despite several thousands of reported observations, their nature is still unknown. In this book, well documented cases of ball lightning are described and used to unravel some aspects of this mysterious form of atmospheric electricity. Throughout the book, the author discusses the various facets of the problem in an accessible but rigorous style, delivering a readable and informative text that will captivate the curious reader. Now in an updated and expanded second edition, the author reports on groundbreaking new data on conditions under which ball lightning may form and its implications. These new discoveries are elucidated with new figures, additional case descriptions, new material on the interaction of ball lightning with humans, and a discussion of the reliability of ball lightning observations. This book presents the most up-to-date summary of the state of knowledge surrounding ball lightning. A foreword by Earle Williams, leading lightning researcher at MIT, introduces the book.

ISBN: 9783032021649$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-02164-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

849849
Ball lightning.

LC Class. No.: QC966.7.B3

Dewey Class. No.: 551.5634

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