Overview

Foreword.- Planetary Atmospheric Electricity.- Investigating Earth's Atmospheric Electricity: a Role Model for Planetary Studies.- Updated Review of Planetary Atmospheric Electricity.- Physical Processes Related to Discharges in Planetary Atmospheres.- An Overview of Earth's Global Electric Circuit and Atmospheric Conductivity.- Ions in the Terrestrial Atmosphere and Other Solar System Atmospheres.- Charge Generation and Separation Processes.- Physics of Electric Discharges in Atmospheric Gases: An Informal Introduction.- Cosmic Ray Induced Ion Production in the Atmosphere.- Meteoric Layers in Planetary Atmospheres.- Profiles of Ion and Aerosol Interactions in Planetary Atmospheres.- Composition and Measurement of Charged Atmospheric Clusters.- Atmospheric Ions and Aerosol Formation.- Tropospheric New Particle Formation and the Role of Ions.- Ground-Based and Space-Based Radio Observations of Planetary Lightning.- Atmospheric Electricity at Saturn.- Atmospheric Electricity Hazards.- Electrical Effects on Atmospheric Chemistry.- TARANIS-A Satellite Project Dedicated to the Physics of TLEs and TGFs.- Lightning Detection by LAC Onboard the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter, Planet-C.- Charge Separation Mechanisms in Clouds.- Charge Structure and Dynamics in Thunderstorms.- Formation of Charge Layers in the Planetary Atmospheres.- Electrical Charging of Volcanic Plumes.- Electrical Activity and Dust Lifting on Earth, Mars, and Beyond.- The Charging of Planetary Rings.- Schumann Resonances as a Means of Investigating the Electromagnetic Environment in the Solar System.- Blue Jets: Upward Lightning.- VLF Studies During TLE Occurrences in Europe: A Summary of New Findings.- DEMETER Observations of EM Emissions Related to Thunderstorms.- On ULF Signatures of Lightning Discharges.