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DR. CHREE in a recent paper,1 giving the results of his investigation based on the Kew atmospheric-electric data, reaches the following interesting conclusion, as stated in his abstract: “The results obtained are on the whole not incompatible with Dr. Bauer's conclusion, but they indicate that if a relationship of the kind supposed exists, the sun-spot influence must be very much less in the case of atmospheric electricity than in that of terrestrial magnetism”. The conclusion2 referred to by Dr. Chree is that the potential gradient of atmospheric electricity apparently varies during the sun-spot cycle, increasing with increased sun-spot activity, and that the diurnal range of the potential gradient of atmospheric electricity, like the diurnal range of terrestrial magnetism, increases with increased sun-spot activity.
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"A Supposed Relationship between Sun-spot Frequency and the Potential Gradient of Atmospheric Electricity,” Proc. Phys. Soc., London, vol. 35, Part 3, April 15, 1923, pp. 129–136.
Terr. Mag. and Atm. Elec., vol. 27 (1922), p. 30; see conclusion f.
Terr. Mag. and Atm. Elect., vol. 23 (1918), p. 63.
Terr. Mag. ani Atm. Elec., vol. 26 (1921), p. 68, conclusion b, and Fig. VII., fifth curve.
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BAUER, L. Solar Activity and Atmospheric Electricity. Nature 112, 203–205 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112203a0
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