Chairs: David Miles Smith, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Gaopeng Lu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China
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, Atlanta, GA, United States
Search for X-rays and relativistic electrons in laboratory discharge experiments
Nikolai Ostgaard1, Brant E Carlson2, Øystein Grøndahl1, Pavlo Kochkin3, Ragnhild Nisi1 and Thomas Gjesteland1, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, (3)Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Toward an Optimized Third Catalog of RHESSI TGFs
Alexander Infanger1, David Miles Smith1, Thomas Gjesteland2, Nikolai Ostgaard2 and Paul Buzbee1,3, (1)Univ of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)Google, Mountain View, CA, United States
Characterizing the TGF-Lightning Relationship Using ENTLN
Kareem Omar1, Shaolin Xiong2, Michael S Briggs1 and Stan Heckman3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Earth Networks, Germantown, MD, United States
Geolocation of Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes in Gamma Rays Using the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Meagan Schaal1, J Eric Grove1, Alexandre Chekhtman2, Michael S Briggs3, Gerard Fitzpatrick4, Steven A Cummer5 and Robert H Holzworth II6, (1)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (5)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Durham, NC, United States, (6)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
The First Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) Catalog
Michael S Briggs1, Valerie Connaughton2, Matthew Stanbro1, Binbin Zhang1, Narayana Bhat1, Gerald J Fishman1, Oliver Roberts3, Gerard Fitzpatrick3, Sheila McBreen3, J Eric Grove4 and Alexandre Chekhtman5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Univ of AL in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (4)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (5)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Lightning Leader Progression and Source Altitudes in Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes
Steven A Cummer1, Michael S Briggs2, Valerie Connaughton2, Gerald J Fishman2 and Joseph R Dwyer3,4, (1)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Durham, NC, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States
TGF PULSE AND RADIO PROPERTIES DETECTED AT CLOSE RANGE
Morris Cohen1, Nicholas C Gross1, Fadi G Zoghzoghy2, Michael S Briggs3, Matthew Stanboro3 and Gerard Fitzpatrick4, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Search for Correlations Between Sprites and Tgfs By Goddard Robotic Telescope Wide Field (GRT-WF)
Ken Watanabe1, Jakob Hegley1, Ekaterina Vydra1, Alexander Luke1, Joseph Schiltz1, Takanori Sakamoto2, Davide Donato3, Takashi Okajima4 and Neil Gehrels5, (1)Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, United States, (2)Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Japan, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
In-Situ observation of energetic electron fluxes inside thunderclouds using Balloon-borne instruments
Shahab Arabshahi1, Igor B Vodopiyanov1, Joseph R Dwyer2,3, Samaneh Sadighi1, Eric S Cramer1, Burcu Kosar1 and Hamid Rassoul1, (1)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States
Preliminary Results from the Summer 2014 ADELE (Airborne Detection of Energetic Lightning Emissions) Campaign Aboard the NOAA Hurricane Hunters’ P3 Orion
Gregory S Bowers1, Nicole Ann Kelley1, George Forest Martinez-McKinney1, David Miles Smith2, Paul Buzbee2 and Joseph R Dwyer3,4, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Univ of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States
Search for Neutrons Associated with Lightning Discharges
J Eric Grove1, W Neil Johnson1, Bernard F Phlips1, Eric A Wulf1, Anthony L. Hutcheson1, Lee J. Mitchell1, Richard S. Woolf1, Meagan Schaal1, Martin A Uman2, Douglas M Jordan2 and Joseph R Dwyer3,4, (1)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States
X- and gamma ray observations in high-altitude thunderstorms in Mexico
Nicole Ann Kelley1,2, David Miles Smith1,2 and Alejandro Lara3, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Energy-Momentum Diffusion Effects on Energy Spectra of Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanches in Air
Eric S Cramer1, Joseph R Dwyer2,3 and Hamid Rassoul1, (1)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States