When do Volcanic Eruptions make Lightning? Observations from Sakurajima, Japan

Sonja A Behnke1, Stephen R McNutt2, Ronald J Thomas3, Cassandra M. Smith4, Harald E Edens5, Alexa R Van Eaton6, Corrado Cimarelli7, Valeria Cigala8, Christopher W Michel9, Daisuke Miki10 and Masato Iguchi10, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of South Florida Tampa, School of Geosciences, Tampa, FL, United States, (3)New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, (5)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (6)USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States, (7)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, (8)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, (9)CM Arborcare, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (10)Kyoto University, Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan