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A highly sensitive field mill for registering weak and strong variations of the electric-field intensity of the Earth’s atmosphere

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The design and the principle of operation of an electric-field intensity meter (field mill) are described. The instrument is intended for determining the energy, time, and spatial parameters of the atmospheric electric field near the Earth’s surface when monitoring a geophysical situation. The developed field mill allows registering both weak variations of the electric-field intensity in the atmosphere, such as global electromagnetic Schumann resonances, and strong variations that are caused by the passage of atmospheric fronts, heavy clouds, thunderstorms, etc. The instrument has a threshold sensitivity of ~10–3 V/(m Hz1/2) within a frequency range of 10–3–25 Hz and a wide dynamic range of 120 dB.

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  1. Institute of Experimental Meteorology, SI RPA Typhoon, Roshydromet, ul. Pobedy 4, Obninsk, Kaluga oblast, 249038, Russia

    A. I. Boldyrev, A. E. Vyazilov, V. N. Ivanov, R. V. Kemaev, V. Ya. Korovin, A. V. Melyashinskiy, K. V. Pamukhin, I. A. Pamukhina, V. N. Panov & Yu. N. Shvyrev

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Boldyrev, A.E. Vyazilov, V.N. Ivanov, R.V. Kemaev, V.Ya. Korovin, A.V. Melyashinskiy, K.V. Pamukhin, I.A. Pamukhina, V.N. Panov, Yu.N. Shvyrev, 2016, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2016, No. 5, pp. 123–132.

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Boldyrev, A.I., Vyazilov, A.E., Ivanov, V.N. et al. A highly sensitive field mill for registering weak and strong variations of the electric-field intensity of the Earth’s atmosphere. Instrum Exp Tech 59, 740–748 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441216040151

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