450 Design and fabrication of an electrometer for
. the measurement of atmospheric potential ESAIJ, 8(11) 2013
Current Research Paper
Figure 7 : Voltage response curve
Figure 8 : Frequency response of passive antenna elec-
trometer
Figure 6 : Printed circuit board
near to the sensor complex. And hence, the conductiv-
ity changes according to the polarity of the charged
particles. Due to the change of the conductivity the cur-
rent and field changes occur. Diurnal variation of atmo-
spheric electric field and current during fairweather day
as well meteorologically disturbed days shown in Fig-
ure 9(a) and 9(b).
The relationship between observed in atmospheric
current (I) and electric field (E) and column resistivity
(R), given by E = wV/R = w.I, where w is the resistivity
at the observation point, V is the total potential differ-
ence between the earth’s surface and the atmospheric
electric equalization layer, and I is the current. Though
the field intensity depend strongly on the meteorologi-
cal processes through its dependence on the local re-
sistivity w, the current, given by I = V/R, is less sensitive
to local changes in conductivity. However, changes in Figure 9(a) : Variation of GEC parameters during fair-
weather day
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