Articles | Volume 14, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-773-2014
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Brief Communication: Earthquake–cloud coupling through the global atmospheric electric circuit
Abstract. We illustrate how coupling could occur between surface air and clouds via the global electric circuit – through Atmospheric Lithosphere–Ionosphere Charge Exchange (ALICE) processes – in an attempt to develop a physical understanding of the possible relationships between earthquakes and clouds.