Preliminary findings of surface fair-weather electric field trends over small tropical island station, Suva, Fiji

Atmospheric Eletric Field on Cosmic Rays Rate

“…This result is in agreement with Feynman et al (2000) which establishes that no matter the geographical location, the maximum variation in the atmospheric potential in fair weather days always happens at 7 PM, Greenwich Meridian Time. Bbesides it, Chacaltaya is a unique place in that sense because the minimum value recorded for these days is around 3 kV/m, in contrast with the 0.1 kV/m showed in the work by Ramachandran et al (2007) and Feynman et al (2000). This feature is mainly due to two peculiarities, the first one is due to the height of the Chacaltaya Laboratory (5230 m a.s.l.)…”