AE33A:
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Michael S Briggs, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Brant E Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Primary Conveners:  David Miles Smith, Univ of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Brant E Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, Gaopeng Lu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China and Michael S Briggs, UA 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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Exploring High-Energy Phenomena in Earth's Atmosphere
Ashot Agassi Chilingarian, Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan-36, Armenia
2:00 PM
 
Investigation of the Role of Cosmic-Ray Extensive Air Showers in the Initiation of Lightning
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
2:20 PM
 
Radar and Atmospheric Sounding observations around 23 TGFs
Themis Chronis, Michael S Briggs and George Priftis, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
2:55 PM
 
Modeling of the increase of the electric field in the encounter between a negative and a positive streamer
Kevin Mohand Ameziane Ihaddadene, University of Orleans, Orleans, France and Sebastien J Celestin, CNRS - LPCE, Orleans Cedex 2, France
3:10 PM
 
In-Flight Measurements of Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms
Pavlo Kochkin1, Alexander Van Deursen1, Alte de Boer2, Michiel Bardet2 and Jean-Francois Boissin3, (1)Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, (2)National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Airbus, Toulouse, France
3:25 PM
 
Constraining faint terrestrial gamma-ray flashes with stacking analyses
David Miles Smith1,2, Paul Buzbee1,3, Shifrah Aron-Dine4, Nicole Ann Kelley1,2, Robert H Holzworth II5, Michael L Hutchins5 and Joseph R Dwyer6,7, (1)Univ of California Santa Cruz, 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)Harvey Mudd College, Department of Physics, Claremont, CA, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States