AE13A:
Atmospheric and Space Electricity General Contributions I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States; University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States and Xuan-Min Shao, Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, 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:

 
Preliminary Breakdown: Physical Mechanisms and Potential for Energetic Emissions
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
Victor P Pasko, Penn State Univ, 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
Amitabh Nag, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States and Vladimir A Rakov, Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, FL, United States
 
On the Optical Emission of Intracloud Lightning Leaders
Kelcy N Brunner, Phillip M Bitzer and Hugh J Christian Jr, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
The Occurrence of Continuing Current in Lightning
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
HB Zhang1, Gaopeng Lu2 and Ye Tian1, (1)IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China
 
Leader formation during the Initial Breakdown stage of a lightning flash
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
Ivana Kolmasova1, Ondrej Santolik1,2, Radek Lan3 and Ludek Uhlir3, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics ACSR, Praha 4, 141, Czech Republic, (2)Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (3)Institute of Atmospheric Physics ACSR, Praha 4, Czech Republic
 
Model Simulations of the Diurnal and Seasonal Variations of the Global Electric Circuit Using a Consistent 3D Model Framework
Greg Lucas1, Victor Bayona2, Natasha Flyer2, Andreas Josef Gerhard Baumgaertner1 and Jeffrey P Thayer1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Anomalously Strong Vertical Magnetic Fields from Distant Lightning
Israel Silber1, Colin Gregory Price1, Eli Galanti2 and Abraham Shuval3, (1)Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, (2)Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (3)Rafael Advanced Defense Systems LTD, Haifa, Israel
 
Detectable initial breakdown pulses and the following discharges
Yang Zhang1,2, Yijun Zhang1,2, Weitao Lu1,2 and Dong Zheng1,2, (1)CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China, (2)CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Laboratory of Lightning Physics and Protection Engineering, Beijing, China
 
Evaluation of Product Algorithm Strategies for the Future Lightning Imager on MTG
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
Julia Tilles1, Ronald J Thomas2, William Rison2, Tom Alan Warner3, John Helsdon4 and Paul R Krehbiel2, (1)New Mexico Tech, Physics, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)ZT Research, Rapid City, SD, United States, (4)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Physics, Rapid City, SD, United States
 
Lightning Characteristics of Eastern Mediterranean Thunderstorms
Yoav Yair1,2, Yuval Ben-Ami3, Orit Altaratz3 and Ilan Koren3, (1)The Open University of Israel, Life and Natural Sciences, Ra'anana, Israel, (2)Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Sustainability School, Herzliya, Israel, (3)Weizmann Institute of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel
 
Compact Intracloud Discharge Locations Compared To Thunderstorm Radar Echo Structure
Nadeeka Karunarathna1, Thomas C Marshall2, Maribeth Stolzenburg3 and Sumedhe Karunarathne1, (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