AE22A:
Atmospheric and Space Electricity General Contributions III

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Robert C Moore, University Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Primary Conveners:  Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States; University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
Co-conveners:  Xuan-Min Shao, Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
VHF Lightning Mapping Observations of Screening Charge Flashes at Thunderstorm Tops
Harald E Edens1, Paul R Krehbiel1 and William Rison2, (1)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech, Socorro, NM, United States
10:35 AM
 
Interferometric Observations of Lightning Initiation
William Rison1, Paul R Krehbiel2, Michael Stock3, Harald E Edens2, Xuan-Min Shao4, Ronald J Thomas1 and Mark A Stanley2, (1)New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
10:50 AM
 
Observation of a bipolar cloud-to-ground flash containing one first positive stroke followed by three negative strokes
Ye Tian1, Gaopeng Lu2, Zhichao Wang1, HongBo Zhang1, Rubin Jiang1, Mingyuan Liu1, Zhuling Sun1 and Xiushu Qie1, (1)IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China
11:05 AM
 
Observations of fast VHF-bright positive breakdown
Michael Stock1, Paul R Krehbiel1, William Rison2, Jeff L Lapierre1 and Harald E Edens1, (1)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech, Socorro, NM, United States
11:20 AM
 
Modelling Discharge Inception in Thunderstorms
Casper Rutjes1, Anna Dubinova2, Ute Ebert2, Stijn Buitink3, Olaf Scholten4 and Gia Trinh4, (1)Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, 1098, Netherlands, (2)Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, (4)University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
11:35 AM
 
Physical Mechanism of Initial Breakdown Pulses in Lightning Discharges
Caitano Da Silva and Victor P Pasko, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
11:50 AM
 
Types of Narrow Bipolar Pulse Wave Shapes Obtained With a Dense Array of Ground-Based E-change Sensors
Sumedhe Karunarathne1, Thomas C Marshall2, Maribeth Stolzenburg3 and Nadeeka Karunarathna1, (1)University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States, (2)Univ Mississippi, University, MS, United States, (3)University of Mississippi, University, MS, United States
12:05 PM
 
Multi-scale 3D simulation of lightning and thunderstorm electrodynamics
Rasoul Kabirzadeh1, Nikolai G Lehtinen1,2, Can Liang1, Morris Cohen3 and Umran Inan1,4, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (4)Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey