In clouds the friction of ice crystals may cause the separation of negative and positive charges, but these charges must regroup somehow, and work together to cause lightning, otherwise there would only be little exchange of small electric bursts. So I guess my hypotheses about dots (items) perhaps could explain those often violent bursts of electricity between clouds, cloud parts or clouds + the ground.
The organized charges (items), by this dot hypotheses of mine, are not nesceserily fixed in their position, but vary by a surplus of negative/positive condition and neutral. The neutral condition may last for a very short while, but within that short while the regrouping and denser charge conditon appears, so there will be a possible bigger burst of electrisity if the positive and negative charges are aligned directly towards each other after some regrouping time, I think. The fast movements of charges cause a little wind in the beginning, but wind conditions may grow much by the greater strength of regrouping of charges. At the same time we have ice crystals that smash into and stick to each other - so they also grow (in size); this might sometimes cause the segregation of charges to stop by interfering and dampen the winds, so there will only be rain with no lightning (and no hail).
So I think by this I have disproven the Bergeron process (that is based on complicated and not very likely pressure conditions to appear within clouds) - it's more likely a variety of the building up (and some instances of tearing down) of charges that is behind it all (ice crystal growth, winds, lightning, rain, hail and snow). This view of mine is supported by the fractal nature of clouds and lightning. I hope to get further into intermediate conditions (like neutral) to explain this more thoroughly.
2012-02-01
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Perhaps the regrouping is explained better by a variation of charges like in this article:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nature.com/news/like-attracts-like-1.10698