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(54) SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AFFECTING Publication Classi?cation SPINNING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA (51) Int. Cl. _ . . H05F 3/00 (2006.01) ( 76 ) I nven t or . V(écsfr t B arlnov, B roo k1 yn, NY G03G 15/02 (200601) G21K 5/00 (2006.01) Correspondence Address: H05K 9/00 (200601) SMITH’ GAMBRELL & RUSSELL (52) us. Cl...... 361/212; 361/225; 250/4923; SUITE 3100, PROMENADE II, 1230 PEACHT- 361/816 REE STREET, N.E. ATLANTA GA 30309-3592 US ’ ( ) (57) ABSTRACT (21) Appl' N05 12/497’638 A system and method for misbalancing or suppressing spin _ _ ning atmospheric phenomena such as tornadoes, , (22) Flled' Jul‘ 3’ 2009 , gustnadoes and WhirlWinds. The systems and Related U s A lication Data methods misbalance or suppress such phenomena utilizing ' ' PP electromagnetic ?elds; irradiation; neutralizing charges; or (60) Provisional app1icati0nN0_ 61/133,801, ?led on Jul' 3, chemical reactions, thus destabilizing or disrupting the phe 2008. nomenon.

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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AFFECTING funnel extends to the ground, and the begins causing SPINNING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA major damage. Tornado, Wikipedia, http://en.Wikipedia.org/ Wiki/ Tornado . STATEMENT OF RELATED APPLICATIONS [0008] Most tornadoes from folloW a recogniZ able life cycle. DosWell, Moller, Anderson et al. (2005); [0001] This application is based on and claims the bene?t Advanced Spotters’ Field Guide (PDF); US Department of of US. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/133,801 hav Commerce. That begins When increasing rainfall drags With it ing a ?ling date of Jul. 3, 2008, Which is incorporated herein an area of quickly descending air knoWn as the rear ?ank by reference. doWndraft (RFD). This doWndraft accelerates as it approaches the ground, and drags the ’s rotating toWards the ground With it. As the mesocyclone BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION approaches the ground, a visible condensation funnel appears [0002] 1. Technical Field to descend from the base of the , often from a rotating Wall . As the funnel descends, the RFD also reaches the [0003] This invention relates to Weather control in meteo ground, creating a gust front that can cause damage a good rology, and, more speci?cally, to the area of protection from distance from the tornado. Usually, the becomes spinning atmospheric phenomena such as tornadoes. a tornado Within minutes of the RFD reaching the ground. [0004] 2. RelatedArt Tornado, Wikipedia, http :// en.Wikipedia.org/Wiki/ Tornado . [0005] A tornado is de?ned by the Glossary of Meteorol [0009] Tornadoes occasionally accompany tropical ogy as “a violently rotating column of air, in contact With the and hurricanes that move over land. Tornadoes are most com ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or under mon to the right and ahead of the path of the storm center as neath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not alWays) visible it comes onshore. Some tornadoes may form during the early as a funnel cloud . . . .” , Second stages of rapidly developing . Tornadoes may Edition; American Meteorological Society (2000) (retrieved appear nearly transparent until dust and debris are picked up. on 2006 Nov. 17). Tornadoes typically comprise a visible A Preparedness Guide Including Safety Information for condensation funnel narroWing from top to bottom, and Schools; US. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic Whose bottom end touches the Earth. Tornadoes often also are and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service; encircled by a cloud of debris. A tornado is not necessarily September 1992 (N OM, FEMA, The American Red Cross). visible; hoWever, the intense loW pressure caused by the high [0010] Electric currents accompany tornado activity. Marx speeds (see Bernoulli’s principle) and rapid rotation Brook, Electric Currents Accompanying Tornado Activity, (due to cyclostrophic balance) usually causes Water vapor in Science, 22 Sep. 1967:Vol. 157. No. 3795, pp. 1434-1436.A the air to condense into a visible condensation funnel. tornado Wall acts as an electrical generator. Grigor’ev, A. I., EdWards, Roger (2006 Apr. 4); The Online Tornado FAQ; Sinkevich, O. A.; Nature of electrical phenomena in tornado Storm Prediction Center (retrieved on 2006 Sep. 8). Many funnels; Soviet Physics-Technical Physics, October 1986, tornadoes are preceded by a funnel cloud as the mesocyclonic Vol. 31, pp. 1185, 1186. Tornadoes emit on the electromag rotation descends toWard the ground. Most tornadoes produce netic spectrum, for example, With sferics and E-?eld effects strong at the surface While the visible funnel is still detected. Bluestein, HoWard (August 1999); “A History of above the ground, so it is dif?cult to tell the difference Severe-Storm-intercept Field Programs”; Weather and Fore betWeen a funnel cloud and a tornado from a distance. Hallam casting 14 (4): 558-577. Samaras, Tim M; (October 2004); “A Nebraska Tornado; Omaha/Valley, Nebr. Weather Forecast Historical Perspective of In-Situ Observations Within Tor O?ice (2005 Oct. 2) (retrieved on 2006 Sep. 8). nado Cores”; Preprints of the 22nd Conference on Severe [0006] Tornadoes normally rotate cyclonically in direction Local Storms, Hyannis, Mass.: American Meteorological (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockWise in Society. The processes of energy conversion in tropical the southern). Approximately 1% of tornadoes rotate in an , hurricanes and tornadoes are discussed in Krasilni anticyclonic direction. Typically, only landspouts and gust kov, E. Y. (1997), Electromagnetohydrodynamic nature of nados rotate anticyclonically, and usually only those Which tropical cyclones, hurricanes, and tornadoes, J. Geophys. form on the anticyclonic shear side of the descending rear Res., 1997, 102(D12), pp. 13,571-13,580, Which is incorpo ?ank doWndraft in a cyclonic supercell. Forbes, Greg; rated herein by reference. Weather.comiBlo g: The Weather Channel on Weather neWs, [0011] Correlations With patterns of lightning activity have hurricanes, tornadoes & meteorology. (accessed 2006 Dec. also been observed, but little in Way of consistent correlations 30). HoWever, on rare occasions, anticyclonic tornadoes form have been advanced. Tomadic storms do not contain more in association With the mesoanticyclone of an anticyclonic lightning than other storms, and some tomadic cells never supercell, in the same manner as the typical cyclonic tornado, contain lightning. More often than not, overall cloud-to or as a companion tomado4either as a or ground (CG) lightning activity decreases as a tornado reaches associated With anticyclonic eddies Within a supercell. Mon the surface and returns to the baseline level When the tornado teverdi, John (2003] an. 25); Sunnyvale and Los Altos, Calif. lifts. In many cases, very intense tornadoes and thunder Tornadoes May 4, 1998. (accessed 20060ct. 20). storms exhibit an increased and anomalous dominance in [0007] The ?rst sign of an approaching tornado may be positive polarity CG discharges. PereZ, Antony H., Louis J. light , folloWed by heavier rain, then rained mixed With Wicker, and Richard E. Orville (September 1997); “Charac hail. The hailstones may groW to the siZe of golf balls or even teristics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Associated With Vio baseballs. After the hail ends, a tornado may strike. First, the lent Tornadoes”; Weather and Forecasting 12 (3): 428-437. At rotating cloud base loWers. This loWering becomes a funnel, the same time many authors believe that “electromagnetics Which continues descending While Winds build near the sur and lightning have little to nothing to do directly With What face, kicking up dust and other debris. Finally, the visible drives tornadoes (tornadoes are basically a thermodynamic US 2010/0002353 A1 Jan. 7, 2010

phenomenon), though there are likely connections With the trons from the outer shells of gas molecules. The gas mol storm and environment affecting both phenomena” Tornado, ecules Which compose air are thus turned into a soup of Wikipedia, http : // en.Wikipedia .org/ Wiki/ Tornado . positive ions and free electrons. The insulating air is trans [0012] There is an opinion in favor of the importance of formed into a conductive plasma. The ability of a storm electrical energy in the mechanism of tornado initiation and cloud’s electric ?elds to transform air into a conductor makes groWth. Vonnegut, V., and C. B. Moore, 1957: Electrical charge transfer (in the form of a lightning bolt) from the cloud activity associated With the BlackWell-Udal tornado. J. to the ground (or even to other ) possible. Lightning, Meteor., 14, 284-285. It is advocated that not only is there a Wikipedia, http://en.Wikipedia.org/Wiki/Lightning. signi?cant factor to be found in the electrical activity but that [0015] A dusty plasma is a plasma containing nanometer or the earth’s magnetic ?eld is also important. These parameters micrometer-sized particles suspended in it. Dust particles are believed to be especially signi?cant during the initial may be charged and the plasma and particles behave as a phases of the storm. Rathbun, E. R., 1960: An electromag plasma, folloWing electromagnetic laWs for particle up to netic basis for the initiation of a tornado; J. Meteor., 17, about 10 nm (or 100 nm if large charges are present). Dusty 371-373. Plasmas: Physics, Chemistry and Technological Impacts in [0013] The precursor of any atmospheric discharge is the Plasma Processing, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1999. Merlino, polariZation of positive and negative charges Within a storm Robert L., “Experimental Investigations of Dusty Plasmas” cloud. The tops of the storm clouds are knoWn to acquire an (2005). Dust particles may acrete into larger particles result excess of positive charge and the bottom of the storm clouds ing in “grain plasmas”. acquire an excess of negative charge. TWo mechanisms seem [0016] Several US patent publications disclose methods for important to the polariZation process. One mechanism affecting tornadoes. US Patent Publication No. 2002/ involves a separation of charge by a process, Which bears 0088364 discloses a method and apparatus for the destabili resemblance to frictional charging. Clouds are known to con Zation and destruction of a tornado comprising the delivery of tain countless millions of suspended Water droplets and ice normally liquid fuel-air explosive in the preferably chosen particles moving and Whirling about in turbulent fashion. areas of this phenomena by pilotless fuel delivery means. The Additional Water from the ground evaporates, rises upWard fuel is released, dispersed and mixed up With rotating air and forms clusters of droplets as it approaches a cloud. This masses and through predetermined time this aerosol cloud upWardly rising moisture collides With Water droplets Within bloWn up. Strong shock Wave scatters air masses, destroys a the clouds. In the collisions, electrons are ripped off the rising uniform rotating How of air and thus destroys tornado. droplets, causing a separation of negative electrons from a [0017] US Patent Publication No. 2003/0085296 discloses positively-charged Water droplet or cluster of droplets. The a method for affecting the formation and/ or direction of a loW second mechanism, Which contributes to the polariZation of a atmospheric Weather system. Audio generators are positioned storm cloud involves a freeZing process. Rising moisture to project sound Waves toWard a peripheral area of a Weather encounters cooler temperatures at higher altitudes. These system. The sound Waves are generated at a frequency to cooler temperatures cause the cluster of Water droplets to affect the formation of the Weather system in a manner to undergo freeZing. The froZen particles tend to cluster more disrupt, enhance or direct the formation. tightly together and form the central regions of the cluster of [0018] US Patent Publication No. 2005/0039626 discloses droplets. The froZen portion of the cluster of rising moisture a system for preventing damage from tornadoes and other becomes negatively charged and the outer droplets acquire a harmful naturally occurring Weather phenomenon by using positive charge. Air currents Within the clouds can rip the multiple jet devices distributed in a ground array to produce outer portions off the clusters and carry them upWard toWard man made tornadoes. The man made tornadoes function to the top of the clouds. The froZen portion of the droplets, With divert or stop the natural tornadoes. Explosive devices can their negative charge tend to gravitate toWards the bottom of also be used With the man made tornadoes to stop the natural the storm clouds. Thus, the clouds become further polariZed. tornadoes. These tWo mechanisms are believed to be the primary causes of the polariZation of storm clouds. In the end, a storm cloud BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION becomes polariZed With positive charges carried to the upper [0019] The systems and methods for misbalancing and sup portions of the clouds and negative portions gravitating pressing the natural electromagnetic component of spinning toWards the bottom of the clouds. The polariZation of the atmospheric phenomena, such as tornadoes, by applying an clouds has an equally important effect on the surface of the external electromagnetic ?eld; by energy conversion; by Earth. The cloud’s electric ?eld stretches through the space affecting the natural electric ?eld; and/or by neutralizing surrounding it and induces movement of electrons upon charges of spinning currents. Such systems and methods Earth. Electrons on Earth’s outer surface are repelled by the interfere With the natural electric charges and electromag negatively-charged cloud’s bottom surface. This creates an netic ?eld of a spinning atmospheric phenomenon, thus desta opposite charge on the Earth’s surface. Buildings, trees and biliZing or disrupting the phenomenon. even people can experience a buildup of static charge as electrons are repelled by the cloud’s bottom. Lightning, Wiki pedia, http://en.Wikipedia.org/Wiki/Lightning. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0014] As the static charge buildup in a storm cloud [0020] FIG. 1 shoWs the polariZation of storm clouds and increases, the electric ?eld surrounding the cloud becomes Earth’s surface. stronger. Normally, the air surrounding a cloud Would be a [0021] FIG. 2 shoWs a particle affected by Wind, an electric good enough insulator to prevent a discharge of electrons to ?eld betWeen the Earth’s surface and clouds, and the Earth’s Earth. Yet, the strong electric ?elds surrounding a cloud are magnetic ?eld. capable of ioniZing the surrounding air and making it more [0022] FIG. 2A shoWs an xyZ system of coordinates for a conductive. The ioniZation involves the shredding of elec charged particle affected by Wind. US 2010/0002353 A1 Jan. 7, 2010

[0023] FIG. 2B shows a particle affected by Wind, an elec local area, conditions leading to a tornado may develop. Rain tric ?eld between the Earth’s surface and clouds. 14 may change the distribution of the charges 6 and 8. [0024] FIG. 2C shows a positively charged particle moving [0041] Electrons on Earth’s outer surface are repelled by upWard spinning in the Earth’s magnetic ?eld in the northern the negatively charged bottom of clouds. This creates an hemisphere. opposite positive charge on the Earth’s surface. Buildings, [0025] FIG. 2D shoWs a positively charged particle moving trees and even people can experience a buildup of static upWard in the current folloWing a magnetic ?eld line in the charge as electrons are repelled by the cloud’s negatively northern hemisphere (Birkeland currents are also knoWn as charged bottom. If We place a small positive test charge qo at ?eld-aligned currents). some point betWeen clouds and the Earth’s surface, there Will [0026] FIG. 3 shoWs the area of development of negatively be a force exerted on qo due to the other charges. The force on charged cloud bottom and positive charges induced on the qo due to electromagnetic ?elds is the Lorentz force, Which is Earth’s surface. given by the folloWing equation [0027] FIG. 4 shoWs a descending rear ?ank doWndraft and an upWard anticipating touch daWn of a tornado. x7?) (1) [0028] FIG. 5 shoWs a schematic vieW of tornado structure. [0029] FIG. 6 shoWs moving charges affecting each other. Where E is the electric ?eld and B) is the magnetic ?eld. [0030] FIG. 7 shoWs a tornado trap. [0031] FIG. 8 shoWs an action of the tornado trap. [0042] The net force EB due to electric ?eld E is the vector [0032] FIG. 9 shoWs a tornado trap comprising multiple sum of the individual forces exerted on qo by each of the other conductors. charges in the system. As each of these forces is proportional [0033] FIG. 10 shoWs a tornado trap comprising multiple to qo, the net force also Will be proportional to qo. The electric electrodes. ?eld at a point is this force divided by qO: [0034] FIG. 11 shoWs a system for suppressing a tornado through an application of an electric potential at a tornado location by a vehicle comprising a poWer source, a controller E: E (2) (negative side), an altering device (positive side), an electrode £10 and an electrode. [0035] FIG. 12 shoWs a system for affecting a tornado by receiving energy from the tornado using a transformer [0043] Strong near-Earth-surface Winds can affect and receiver. raise particles above the ground level. Some of the raised [0036] FIG. 13 shoWs a system for suppressing a tornado, particles carry a positive charge. A charged particle is affected Which said suppressing system comprises an irradiating by a cloud-Earth’s surface electric ?eld and has a tendency for device delivering negatively charged particles to a rotating upWard movement. Both the effects of Winds and the electric Wall cloud. ?eld cause the particle to move at none-Zero angle to the normal to the Earth surface. [0037] FIG. 14 shoWs a system for suppressing a tornado, Which said suppressing system comprises an irradiating [0044] When a charged particle moves in the Earth’s mag device delivering positively charged particles to the bottom of netic ?eld B) With its velocity T at some arbitrary angle With the cloud. a a [0038] FIG. 15 shoWs a system for suppressing a tornado, respect to B, the magnetic force F B exerted on a charge qO Which said suppressing system comprises a source of ultra according to the equation: sound. ?B:qO;)+E) (3) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS [0045] Particles affected by force of Wind and force of OF THE INVENTION electric ?eld move in arbitrary directions. Particles that are traveling in a direction not parallel to the Earth’s magnetic Formation of Tornado ?eld are affected by the Earth’s magnetic ?eld. According to [0039] From the electromagnetic prospective a tornado is a equation (3) positively charged particles start spinning coun current, or an electric current, or How of charged particles. terclockWise in the northern hemisphere. A spinning column The formation, development and movement of a spinning rises above the ground level and is knoWn as a rotating Wall atmospheric phenomenon such as a tornado, , cloud. The spinning column forms an inductor, Which induc , , WhirlWind, and tropical tor develops additional magnetic ?eld. requires the balance of acting ?elds supporting the formation, [0046] Referring noW to FIG. 2, the spinning properties of development and movement of the spinning atmospheric phe the spinning column depend on a cloud-ground electric ?eld, nomenon. A also is referred to by other the magnetic ?eld at the given area, the nature and charge of names, such as cyclone, hurricane, , tropical storm, the spinning particles, and the moisture in air leading to cyclonic storm, tropical depression and tornado cyclone. discharge. FIG. 2A shoWs an xyZ system of coordinates for a [0040] Referring noW to FIG. 1, the precursor of any atmo particle carrying a charge. For simplicity a Wind propagation spheric currentilightning strike, tornado, etc .iis the polar direction is chosen to be in xy-plane. FIG. 2B shoWs hoW the iZation of positive and negative charges Within a storm cloud. particle is affected by forces caused by Wind EW and an With the cloud 4 polarized into opposite positive 6 and nega tive 8 charges, and With positive charges 10 induced upon electric ?eld EE. FIG. 2C shoWs a positively charged particle Earth’s surface, the stage is set for a lightning strike (not moving upWard spinning in the Earth’s magnetic ?eld in the shoWn) or a tornado 12. Generally, if ioniZing the surrounding Northern hemisphere. FIG. 2D shoWs a positively charged air is not enough for development of a lightning bolt at given particle moving upWard in the current folloWing a magnetic US 2010/0002353 A1 Jan. 7, 2010

?eld line, which is an example of Birkeland currents, also affected by a centrifugal force P) 62. If the charge q 54 moves known as ?eld-aligned currents. [0047] Referring now to FIG. 3, as long as the negatively with velocity T 64 parallel to velocity T 46, the charge q 54 charged cloud bottom is in the area, new positive charges will is affected by a force P) 66. Under effect of the force P) 66 the be induced on the Earth’s surface particles at the given area of the Earth’s surface. Referring now to FIG. 4, at some point in velocity T 64 changes to a velocity T 68. If the charge q 58 time a portion of negatively charged cloud begins to quickly descend towards the spinning positive charges. Moving moves with velocity T 70 parallel to velocity T 46, the downward negatively-charged particles rotate clockwise if charge q 58 is affected by a force P) 72. Under effect of the we see them from the top view, or counterclockwise if we them from the bottom view. This quickly descending air is force P) 72 the velocity T 70 changes to a velocity T 74. known as the rear ?ank downdraft (RFD). At the same time Under effect of a magnetic ?eld produced by all charges positively-charged particles near the Earth’s surface rotate moving along a circle 44 the velocities 68, 74 change to 76, count clockwise if we see them from the bottom view. The 77. Under effect of a magnetic ?eld produced by all charges downdraft approaches the ground and drags the supercell’s moving along a circle 44 the velocities 76, 77 change to 78, rotating mesocyclone towards the ground with it. The con 79. The directions of velocities of the charges 54, 58 keep nection of descending air and rotating surface particles of the changing until the charges 54, 58 reach the circle 44 and start wall cloud may lead to touch down of a tornado. A schematic moving counterclockwise along the circle 44. tornado structure is shown on FIG. 5. A spinning atmospheric [0052] Each charge rotating in a charged wall column of a phenomenon such as a tornado forms a coil-like structure. tornado is affected by a magnetic ?eld produced by all other The ascending “positive-particle” tornado rotates count charges rotating in the tornado column. According to equa clockwise if we see it from the bottom view (in the northern tion (3) the magnetic ?eld produces a magnetic force. The hemisphere). FIGS. 3-5 refer to the Northern hemisphere. magnetic force is directed centrifugal for any particle on the The formation of positively-charged tornado is similar in the same circle and at the same level, or centrifugal and upward southern hemisphere, except the “clockwise” rotation for the particles circulating above. If the effect is strong switches to the “counterclockwise” rotation and the “coun enough under given conditions, the diameter of the column terclockwise” rotation switches to the “clockwise” rotation has a tendency for increase. for each of the events described above. [0053] If the rotating charged wall column bears positive [0048] The movement of charged particles may be similar charges, a positively charged particle moving in the same direction is attracted to the rotating charged wall column by a to a Birkeland current in a space plasma. Birkeland currents magnetic force created by the magnetic ?eld that is created by are also known as ?eld-aligned electric currents. The ?eld the rotating charged wall column. The above system forms a aligned electric currents create inductors, which develop magnetic ?elds. The structure of the moving particles may be dusty current. If the rotating charged wall column bears posi tive charges, a negatively charged particle moving in the same similar to a double layer in plasma. A double layer is a direction outside the rotating charged wall column is repelled structure in a plasma and consists of two parallel layers with opposite electric charges. Charged particles that enter the from the rotating charged wall column by a magnetic force created by the magnetic ?eld. If the rotating charged wall double layer may be accelerated, decelerated, or re?ected by the electric ?eld. The structure of the tornado may include a column bears positive charges, a negatively charged particle moving in the same direction inside the column is repelled dusty plasma and create plasma ?ow. Such a tornado may be from the rotating charged wall column to the center of the referred as a dusty current or a spinning dusty current. column by a magnetic force created by the magnetic ?eld. [0049] Ocean water is an electrolyte. Similar to the above, [0054] The system of particles moving at high velocity if similar charged clouds develop over the ocean surface, creates a Zone of a low pressure proximal to a tornado column polariZation of the ocean surface may develop. Negative according to Bernoulli’s law. The surrounding particles are charges go down in the ocean. A cloud-ocean electric ?eld is soaked in the low-pressure-area of the spinning column. As an increasing ?eld. the net charge of surrounding particles is positive, the total [0050] Each moving charged particle produces a magnetic charge of the spinning system increases. Those recently ?eld, which in?uences the movement of the other surround induced charges feed the tornado. The effects of the electric ing charged particles according to the equation: and magnetic ?elds will be increasing, which increase forces driving the tornado. This will increase signi?cantly the mass of objects soaked in the low-pressure area of the spinning A _ #0 LIT>< ? (4) column. B _ 5 r2 [0055] When a tornado column raises high above the Earth’s surface, the effect of the Earth’s magnetic ?eld becomes weaker. In addition, the net magnetic ?eld depends [0051] Referring now to FIG. 6, according to equation (4) a on the magnetic ?elds developed by the spinning particles of charge q 42 moving counterclockwise along a circle 44 with a a the tornado. The magnetic ?eld also becomes less homoge velocity v 46 produces a leaving-page magnetic ?eld B 48 neous, which leads to an increase of the radius of the column. at the location of charge q 50, a leaving-page magnetic ?eld Application of Fields to Spinning Atmospheric B 52 at the location of charge q 54, and an entering-page Phenomena a magnetic ?eld B 56 at the location of charge q 58. Charges 42, 50, 54, 58 are positive charges. lfthe charge q 50 moves [0056] A ?eld is an assignment of a physical quantity to every point in space. John Gribbin (1998). Q is for Quantum: counterclockwise with a velocity T 60, the charge q 50 is Particle Physics from A to Z. London: Weidenfeld & Nicol