AE33A:
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms II

Session ID#: 3183

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3024 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Michael S Briggs, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States and Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Primary Convener:  David Miles Smith, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, Gaopeng Lu, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Michael S Briggs, UA Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, United States
Index Terms:

3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

AE33A-01
Exploring High-Energy Phenomena in Earth's Atmosphere (Invited) (5715)
Ashot Agassi Chilingarian, Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan-36, Armenia and Bagrat G Mailyan, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China
AE33A-02
Investigation of the Role of Cosmic-Ray Extensive Air Showers in the Initiation of Lightning (11441)
Eric R Benton1, Nathan C Lindy1, Aaron N Ruse1, William H Beasley2 and Danyal Petersen3, (1)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Univ of Oklahoma-Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
AE33A-03
Radar and Atmospheric Sounding observations around 23 TGFs (16053)
Themis Chronis1, Michael S Briggs2 and George Priftis1, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States
AE33A-04
Simulation of a two step TGF ignition above cloudtops with MeV electron input fluxes generated in the electric fields of lightning streamers (26994)
Paul Henry Connell, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
AE33A-05
Modeling of the increase of the electric field in the encounter between a negative and a positive streamer (17697)
Kevin M. A. Ihaddadene, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States and Sebastien J Celestin, CNRS - LPCE, Orleans Cedex 2, France
AE33A-06
In-Flight Measurements of Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms (8755)
Pavlo Kochkin1, Alexander Van Deursen1, Alte de Boer2, Michiel Bardet2 and Jean-Francois Boissin3, (1)Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612, Netherlands, (2)National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Airbus, Toulouse, France
AE33A-07
Constraining faint terrestrial gamma-ray flashes with stacking analyses (17578)
David Miles Smith1,2, Paul Buzbee3,4, Shifrah Aron-Dine5, Nicole Ann Kelley2,4, Robert H Holzworth II6, Michael L Hutchins7 and Joseph R Dwyer8,9, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Google, Mountain View, CA, United States, (4)Univ of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)Harvey Mudd College, Department of Physics, Claremont, CA, United States, (6)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (7)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center (EOS), Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
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