Lightning During the Eruptions at Sakurajima Volcano, Japan

Ronald J Thomas1, Sonja A Behnke2, Harald E Edens3, Masato Iguchi4, Daisuke Miki4, Stephen R McNutt5, Alexa R Van Eaton6, Cassandra M. Smith7, Corrado Cimarelli8, Valeria Cigala9 and Sakurajima Volcanic-lightning Team, (1)New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)Kyoto University, Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan, (5)University of South Florida Tampa, School of Geosciences, Tampa, FL, United States, (6)USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States, (7)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, (8)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, (9)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany