All that said, we can draw the conclusion that the theoretical effects of CO2 do in fact exist, they have been measured over a 10 cm path length, and from this we can extrapolate that a still higher sensitivity would be arrived at once the entire atmospheric scale and the change in water vapour concentration from bottom to top of that scale is taken into account. (wattsupwiththat.com)
After all, lightning is just a rush of electrons leading to an electric spark on an atmospheric scale — any atmosphere. (discovermagazine.com)
On an atmospheric scale, he says, plasma particles can behave in a similar way, redistributing throughout the atmosphere to form plumes that «flow through a huge circulation system, with a lot of different consequences.» (sciencedaily.com)