This volume presents our contemporary understanding of atmospheric electricity at Earth and in other solar system atmospheres. It is written by experts in terrestrial atmospheric electricity and planetary scientists. Many of the key issues related to planetary atmospheric electricity are discussed.

"The objective of this book is to discuss our present understanding of atmospheric electricity at Earth and on the other planets of our solar system. The book is organized into chapter which are Introduction, Ionisation processes in Planetary Atmospheres, Measurements and effects of thunderstorms and lightning, New missions, Hazards and atmospheric effects, Charging formation, Electromagnetic signature of discharge in the atmosphere. The book is organized in order to openly discuss of all issues related to atmospheric electricity applied to our solar system planets. Part of the contrinutors are experts of atmospheric electricity who will describe the present understanding of this phenomena at the Earth and another part correspond to experts of planetary science working either on instrument developments aiming to observe the atmospheric electricity on other planets or on theoretical models of planetary atmospheric electricity."

Foreword.- Planetary Atmospheric Electricity.- Investigating Earth's Atmospheric Electricity: a Role Model for Planetary Studies.- Updated Review of Planetary Atmospheric Electricity.- Physical Processes Related to Discharges in Planetary Atmospheres.- An Overview of Earth's Global Electric Circuit and Atmospheric Conductivity.- Ions in the Terrestrial Atmosphere and Other Solar System Atmospheres.- Charge Generation and Separation Processes.- Physics of Electric Discharges in Atmospheric Gases: An Informal Introduction.- Cosmic Ray Induced Ion Production in the Atmosphere.- Meteoric Layers in Planetary Atmospheres.- Profiles of Ion and Aerosol Interactions in Planetary Atmospheres.- Composition and Measurement of Charged Atmospheric Clusters.- Atmospheric Ions and Aerosol Formation.- Tropospheric New Particle Formation and the Role of Ions.- Ground-Based and Space-Based Radio Observations of Planetary Lightning.- Atmospheric Electricity at Saturn.- Atmospheric Electricity Hazards.- Electrical Effects on Atmospheric Chemistry.- TARANIS-A Satellite Project Dedicated to the Physics of TLEs and TGFs.- Lightning Detection by LAC Onboard the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter, Planet-C.- Charge Separation Mechanisms in Clouds.- Charge Structure and Dynamics in Thunderstorms.- Formation of Charge Layers in the Planetary Atmospheres.- Electrical Charging of Volcanic Plumes.- Electrical Activity and Dust Lifting on Earth, Mars, and Beyond.- The Charging of Planetary Rings.- Schumann Resonances as a Means of Investigating the Electromagnetic Environment in the Solar System.- Blue Jets: Upward Lightning.- VLF Studies During TLE Occurrences in Europe: A Summary of New Findings.- DEMETER Observations of EM Emissions Related to Thunderstorms.- On ULF Signatures ofLightning Discharges.