AE21A
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3001 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Brant E Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Conveners:  Michael S Briggs, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Gaopeng Lu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China and Paul Henry Connell, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
Chairs:  Brant E Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States and Michael S Briggs, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
08:00
Electrical Structure of Real Thunderstorms in Relation to Energetic Radiation Production (Invited) (70661)
Maribeth Stolzenburg, University of Mississippi, University, MS, United States
08:15
Cosmic rays as probes of atmospheric electric fields (Invited) (67810)
Olaf Scholten, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9727, Netherlands
08:30
Positron density enhancements recorded within a thunderstorm by ADELE (Invited) (75116)
Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States; University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States
08:45
An Intense Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash Observed at Ground Level (Invited) (79926)
J Eric Grove, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States
09:00
The interpretation of gamma-ray enhancements in thunderstorms with and without avalanche multiplication (73043)
Nicole Ann Kelley, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
09:15
On the Energy Spectra of Individual Terrestrial Gamma ray Flashes (73285)
Bagrat G Mailyan1, Michael S Briggs1, Eric S Cramer1, Valerie Connaughton2 and Joseph R Dwyer3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Univ of AL in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
09:30
The sequence of events in a lightning stroke: terrestrial gamma ray flash, radio signal and optical lightning. (64240)
Nikolai Ostgaard1, Thomas Gjesteland1,2, Hugh J Christian Jr3, Kjetil Albrechtsen1, Brant E Carlson4, Andrew Collier5, Steve Cummer6 and Gaopeng Lu7, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, (5)University of KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu, South Africa, (6)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke, NC, United States, (7)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China
09:45
Modeling of High-Energy Photon Bursts From Lightning Leader (66915)
Sebastien J Celestin1, Wei Xu2 and Victor P Pasko2, (1)University of Orleans, Orleans, France, (2)Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States