The Electrical Nature of Storms

The Electrical Nature of Storms (D. R. MacGorman and W. D. Rust, 1998, 422 pp., $85.00, hardbound, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-507337-1). The stated goal of the authors was "to produce a modern, graduate level textbook on the electrical processes of storms." To achieve this, material was gathered from course notes and recent research results. The book begins with a tutorial on basic electricity and magnetism, followed by 10 …