Title
Comparative analysis of local and global atmospheric electric field at the Northern Pakistan
Date Issued
15 September 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Gurmani S.F.
Ahmad N.
Hussain T.
Shafaq S.
Iqbal T.
University, Sao Paulo
Abstract
Daily variations of the Atmospheric Electric Field (AEF) allow to observe separately the atmospheric electricity due to global and local factors. Observations of the AEF are made for three different sites of Pakistan during fair weather conditions. These three sites are Islamabad (ISB), Muzaffarabad (MZF) and Balakot (BKT). Analyses of the diurnal variations of the atmospheric electric field for these sites are discussed in this paper with respect to annual and seasonal behavior. Muzaffarabad and Balakot sites show two daily maxima and Islamabad site shows single maxima, characteristic of local influences, such as the aerosol, sunrise effect and “Austausch effect” or exchange layer effect. Later, these results are compared globally with land based measurements available in the literature and with the Carnegie curve. Local effects found to be dominant among these sites with respect to one another due to geographical location, climate and different meteorological parameters. This is the first different creation of the ISB-MZF-BKT database which will be very effective to improve the information of atmospheric electricity in the complex processes due to weather and climate. This database from Pakistan will be useful for the scientific community for further understating and investigation of the Global Electric Circuit (GEC).
Volume
206
Number
105326
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Investigación climática Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85085735629
Source
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
ISSN of the container
13646826
Sponsor(s)
The authors are grateful to Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) and the simulated weather data from meteoblue( www.meteoblue.com ) regarding the provision of the detailed weather data which help us in choosing fair weather days. I am also thankful to my colleagues and staff for their cooperation. J. Tacza is very thankful of PNPD / CAPES for funding. There is no direct source of funding during the course of this project. Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior CAPES
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