AE13A:
Atmospheric and Space Electricity General Contributions I Posters

Session ID#: 4332

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States; University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center (EOS), Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States and Xuan-Min Shao, Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, United States
Primary Convener:  Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States; University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center (EOS), Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
Co-Convener:  Xuan-Min Shao, Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, United States
Index Terms:

0399 General or miscellaneous [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Preliminary Breakdown: Physical Mechanisms and Potential for Energetic Emissions (30093)
Danyal Petersen, Univ of Oklahoma-Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and William H Beasley, Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
 
Quasi-Static Electric Field Signatures of Intra-Cloud Stepped Leaders (30937)
Victor P Pasko, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and William P Winn, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States
 
A Unified Model of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Stroke (30463)
Amitabh Nag, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Vladimir A Rakov, University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, United States
 
On the Optical Emission of Intracloud Lightning Leaders (31201)
Dr. Kelcy N Brunner1, Phillip M Bitzer2 and Hugh J Christian Jr2, (1)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
The Occurrence of Continuing Current in Lightning (30879)
Phillip M Bitzer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Locating narrow bipolar events with single-station measurement of low-frequency magnetic fields (22993)
HB Zhang1, Gaopeng Lu2 and Ye Tian1, (1)IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Leader formation during the Initial Breakdown stage of a lightning flash (22039)
Maribeth Stolzenburg1, Thomas C Marshall2, Sumedhe Karunarathne1, Nadeeka Karunarathna1 and Richard E Orville3, (1)University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States, (2)Univ Mississippi, University, MS, United States, (3)Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
 
Properties of Trains of Strong Preliminary Breakdown Pulses Which Are Followed by Weak Return Stroke (12504)
Ivana Kolmasova1, Ondrej Santolik2,3, Radek Lan1 and Ludek Uhlir4, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, (2)Department of Space Physics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, (3)Institute of Atmospheric Physics ACSR, Praha 4, Czech Republic, (4)Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Space Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
 
Model Simulations of the Diurnal and Seasonal Variations of the Global Electric Circuit Using a Consistent 3D Model Framework (18198)
Greg Lucas1, Victor Bayona2, Natasha Flyer2, Andreas Josef Gerhard Baumgaertner3 and Jeffrey P Thayer4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Anomalously Strong Vertical Magnetic Fields from Distant Lightning (9362)
Israel Silber1, Colin Gregory Price1, Eli Galanti2 and Abraham Shuval3, (1)Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, (2)Weizmann Institute of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel, (3)Rafael Advanced Defense Systems LTD, Haifa, Israel
 
Evaluation of Product Algorithm Strategies for the Future Lightning Imager on MTG (10937)
Ullrich Finke, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, Hannover, Germany and Jochen Grandell, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
 
Thunderstorm Charge Structures in South Dakota, Colorado, and New Mexico (22875)
Julia Tilles1, Ronald J Thomas2, William Rison3, Tom Alan Warner4, John Helsdon5 and Paul R Krehbiel3, (1)New Mexico Tech, Physics, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, United States, (4)ZT Research, Rapid City, SD, United States, (5)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Physics, Rapid City, SD, United States
 
Compact Intracloud Discharge Locations Compared To Thunderstorm Radar Echo Structure (15731)
Nadeeka Karunarathna1, Thomas C Marshall2, Maribeth Stolzenburg1 and Sumedhe Karunarathne1, (1)University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States, (2)Univ Mississippi, University, MS, United States