Glossary on atmospheric electricity and its effects on biology
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SPECIAL ISSUE: ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY AND BIOMETEOROLOGY
Glossary on atmospheric electricity and its effects on biology Pablo Fdez-Arroyabe 1 & Konstantinos Kourtidis 2,3 & Christos Haldoupis 4 & Snezana Savoska 5 & James Matthews 6 & Lluis M. Mir 7 & Pavlos Kassomenos 8 & Michal Cifra 9 & Susana Barbosa 10 & Xuemeng Chen 11 & Snezana Dragovic 12 & Christos Consoulas 13 & Ellard R. Hunting 14 & Daniel Robert 14 & Oscar A. van der Velde 15 & Francesca Apollonio 16 & Anna Odzimek 17 & Ashot Chilingarian 18 & Dominic Royé 19 & Hripsime Mkrtchyan 18 & Colin Price 20 & József Bór 21 & Christina Oikonomou 22 & Marius-Victor Birsan 23 & Benedicto Crespo-Facorro 24 & Milan Djordjevic 25 & Ciro Salcines 26 & Amparo López-Jiménez 27 & Reik V. Donner 28,29 & Marko Vana 11 & Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen 30 & Michel Vorenhout 31 & Michael Rycroft 32 Received: 17 October 2019 / Revised: 31 August 2020 / Accepted: 31 August 2020 # ISB 2020
Abstract There is an increasing interest to study the interactions between atmospheric electrical parameters and living organisms at multiple scales. So far, relatively few studies have been published that focus on possible biological effects of atmospheric electric and magnetic fields. To foster future work in this area of multidisciplinary research, here we present a glossary of relevant terms. Its main purpose is to facilitate the process of learning and communication among the different scientific disciplines working on this topic. While some definitions come from existing sources, other concepts have been re-defined to better reflect the existing and emerging scientific needs of this multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary area of research. Keywords Atmospheric electricity phenomena . Atmospheric electric field . Biological effects . Biometeorological profile . Glossary
Introduction There is emerging evidence that atmospheric electric field (AEF) variations may interfere with biological processes at multiple scales, ranging from nanomaterial charges to global scale phenomena such as Schumann resonances (SR) of the Earth-ionosphere cavity (for review, see Hunting et al. 2020; Cifra et al. 2020; Price et al. 2020). The inclusion of atmospheric electricity is therefore becoming progressively important in studies on a wide variety of environmental processes. However, linking atmospheric electrical processes with biological processes requires the consideration of concepts and methodologies from disparate scientific disciplines, ranging from meteorology and atmospheric physics to biological and medical sciences. Since multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies can only be developed if basic concepts for one discipline are
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shared in a simple way with other disciplines (from social sciences to data sciences), basic descriptions about some terms are demanded to facilitate integration of knowledge in common research. Therefore, we present here a glossary of terms relevant t
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