Engineering Physics Annotation << Back SPIRAL FLOW STRUCTURES IN THE AEROSOL ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA N.I. IZHOVKINA, S.N. ARTEKHA, N.S. EROKHIN, L.A. MIKHAILOVSKAYA Strong electric fi elds are frequently observed in atmospheric clouds. The occurrence of vortex structures in a heterogeneous gyrotropic medium is stochastically determined. The gyrotropy of the ionosphere and the atmosphere is associated with Coriolis force, and with the movement of charged particles in the geomagnetic fi eld. The vortices of plasma nature are generated in the atmosphere. Nonmonotonic stratifi cation of unstable plasma irregularities contributes to the formation of cellular structures. A manifestation of the electric fi eld of plasma vortices is possible for the pressure gradient fi elds of mosaic mesh topology with the particles ionization. It is shown that the forces of the electromagnetic interaction between elements of flow structure contribute to the intensifi cation of the vortex structure in the aerosol plasma of the atmospheric clouds. The interaction of spiral plasma current vortices is determined by their size and the geometric parameters of their spatial distribution. Keywords: plasma vortices, the geomagnetic field, atmospheric electric fi elds, aerosol particles, ionosphere. Contacts: E-mail: izhovn@izmiran.ru Pp. 57-68.