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Michael J. Peterson

Retrieving Global Wilson Currents from Electrified Clouds using Satellite Passive Microwave Observations

Global total TRMM current
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Peterson et al. (2015) developed an algorithm for estimating the electric field vector at any point above an electrified cloud from passive microwave observations. 

A TRMM/GPM retrieval of the total mean generator current for the global electric circuit

Global mean distribution of Wilson current for the GEC (1.6 kA total)
Monday, October 16, 2017

A specialized satellite version of the passive microwave electric field retrieval algorithm (Peterson et al., 2015) is applied to observations from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellites to estimate the generator current for the Global

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