The routine observations of the atmospheric electric field, atmospheric electric conductivity and space charge were carried out from Angust, 1948 to April, 1950 at Hongo, Tokyo.
In connexion with the electrical characteristics of the comparatively thin layer near the ground, which should play an important rôle for the localization of changes in the atmospheric electric field, electric disturbances on meteorologically quiet days are examined.
The electric disturbances on these days are divided into seven cases, and the correlation coefficients between these electric quantities in individual cases are obtained.
The result shows that, when the time derivative of electric field, ∂
E/∂
t is smaller than 4πλ
E, the electric field are mainly subject to its simple relation to conductivity λ, space charge ρ and vertical wind velocity
w near the ground, namely, λ
E+ρ
w=const.
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