Translation and Dissemination Via a Digital Archive/E-Book of the Writings of Heinz Kasemir on Atmospheric Electricity

这笔资金用于翻译和电子传播（通过美国地球物理联合会主办的出版物网站）一组58篇科学论文和技术报告，包括1000多页的文本和插图，作者是Heinz Kasemir博士，他是一位著名的德国物理学家，后来移民到美国，在美国国家海洋和大气管理局工作，长期从事闪电物理学的基础研究。Kasemir博士在1950年左右提出了一个概念，即照明是一个双向的领导者，它的净电荷为零，直到几十年后，这个概念才被更广泛的社区所充分理解。Kasemir对闪电通道的详细和突破性的分析，建立了电场和向上导向的领导者电荷发展之间的关键关系，被认为是迄今为止正确理解闪电过程中缺失的一环。他的作品的这方面和其他方面将在精选论文的介绍和评论中得到强调，这将有助于将他的作品置于现代照明研究的背景下。这项活动的智力价值来自于更全面地描述闪电通道发展和传播的物理特性。这一努力的更广泛影响将通过保存和大大改善对大气电研究领域大量科学工作的访问而产生。

This grant provides support for translation and electronic dissemination (via an American Geophysical Union-hosted publications website) of a group of 58 scientific papers and technical reports comprising over 1000 pages of text & illustrations authored by Dr. Heinz Kasemir, a noted German physicist who later emigrated to the U.S. where he worked within NOAA and was long engaged in fundamental studies of lightning physics. Among key findings represented in his body of work, which has until now not been readily accessible, around 1950 Dr. Kasemir advanced the notion that lighting develops as a bi-directional leader with zero net charge--a concept that was not fully appreciated in the broader community until many decades later. Kasemir's detailed and ground-breaking analysis of lightning channels, which established key relationships between electric fields and charge development in upward-directed leaders, are viewed as representing a heretofore missing link in proper understanding of the lightning process. This and other aspects of his work will be highlighted in an introduction and commentary on selected papers, which will serve to place this work in the context of modern lighting research.The Intellectual Merit of this activity derives from efforts to more comprehensively describe the physics of lightning channel development and propagation. Broader Impacts of this effort will come through the preservation and greatly improved access to a large body of scientific work in the area of atmospheric electricity research.