AE33A:
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms II Posters


Session ID#: 10274

Session Description:
Highly energetic radiation has been observed in conjunction with thunderstorm electrical activity in recent years, at timescales from microseconds and milliseconds (usually coincident with lightning) to minutes, and from the vantage points of satellites, aircraft, balloon-borne instruments, and instruments on the ground. High-energy electrons, positrons, gamma-rays, and possibly neutrons have been observed, but the physical processes and enabling meteorological contexts involved remain mysteries. We invite experimental, theoretical, and observational contributions investigating all aspects of energetic radiation produced in connection with atmospheric electricity, including terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), terrestrial electron beams (TEBs), positron and neutron production, high-energy radiation from stepped leaders, runaway relativistic electron avalanche, observations of lightning and thunderstorms associated with energetic radiation, effects of electric field geometry on radiation production, effects of thunderstorm electric fields on cosmic-ray showers, and physical models of radiation production.
Primary Convener:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Conveners:  Michael S Briggs, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States, Gaopeng Lu, Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Paul Henry Connell, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
Chairs:  Paul Henry Connell, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain and Gaopeng Lu, Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
OSPA Liaison:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, United States
Index Terms:

3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Nanosecond Enhancements of the Atmospheric Electron Density by Extensive Air Showers (58735)
Casper Rutjes1, Enrico Camporeale2, Ute Ebert3, Stijn Buitink4,5, Olaf Scholten4,6, Gia Thi Ngoc Trinh6 and Jeroen Witteveen7, (1)Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, 1098, Netherlands, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (3)Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Multiscale Dynamics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Astrophysical Institute, Brussels, Belgium, (5)Radboud University Nijmegen, imapp, Nijmegen, Netherlands, (6)University of Groningen, KVI-CART, Groningen, Netherlands, (7)Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements Abruptly Terminated by the Lightning Flash (63132)
Ashot Agassi Chilingarian and Suren B Sogomonyan, Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan-36, Armenia
Continuation of Search for Correlations Between Sprites and Tgfs By Goddard Robotic Telescope Wide Field (GRT-WF) (63642)
Ken Watanabe1, Takanori Sakamoto2, Jakob Christopher Hegley1, Joseph Ryan Schlitz1, Ekaterina Vydra1, Takashi Okajima3 and Neil Gehrels4, (1)Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, United States, (2)Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Japan, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Report on the Construction, Deployment, and Measurement of the Spectra of Atmospheric Photons and Meteorological Parameters in the 0 to 1.8 MeV Regime Using a Wide-Area Array of Detectors. (83386)
Christopher G Fasano, Monmouth College, Physics & Engineering, Monmouth, IL, United States and Monmouth College Lightning Research Group
The simulation of TGF origin in lightning leader electric fields by cosmic ray shower electrons (60161)
Paul Henry Connell, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain and Dimitra Atri, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States
Reassessing the BATSE Catalogue of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (63650)
Amanda M Sleinkofer, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States, Michael S Briggs, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States and Valerie Connaughton, Univ of AL in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Modelling The TARANIS XGRE Insturment For Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes and Associated Electron Beams (63222)
David Sarria1, Francois Lebrun2, Pierre-Louis Blelly3, Francois Forme1, Philippe Laurent4, Damien Pailot2 and Rémi Chipaux5, (1)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (2)Astro-particules et Cosmologie, High energy astrophysics, Paris, France, (3)Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Observatoire Midi–Pyrénées, CNRS, CNES, IRAP, Toulouse, France, (4)CEA, DSM/IRFU, Saclay, France, (5)CEA, DSM//IRFU/SEDI/DEPHYS, Paris, France
Gamma Ray and Very Low Frequency Radio Observations from a Balloon-Borne Platform (66561)
Candice Quinn, Alex Sheldon, Christopher M Cully, Armando Davalos, Cj Osakwe, Dain Galts, Juan Delfin, Cooper Duffin, Justin Mansell, Marc Russel, Michelle Bootsma, Robin Williams, Matthew Patrick, Maria Laura Mazzino and David J Knudsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Measurement of energetic radiation caused by thunderstorm activities by a sounding balloon and ground observation (71182)
Tatsuo Torii, JAEA Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Remote Sensing Div., CLADS, Nucl. Sci. Res. Inst., Tokai-mura, Japan
Relativistic feedback models of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and gamma-ray glows (75201)
Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanches in the Presence of an External Magnetic Field (75741)
Eric S Cramer, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, Ningyu Liu, University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Hamid K Rassoul, Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, United States and Michael S Briggs, CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
Strong Peak Electric Field in Streamer Discharges Caused by Rapid Changes in the External Electric Field (69278)
Kevin M. A. Ihaddadene, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States and Sebastien J Celestin, LPC2E, University of Orleans, CNRS, Orleans, France
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) Catalog (76577)
Matthew Stanbro1, Michael S Briggs2, Oliver Roberts3, Sheila McBreen3, Narayana Bhat1 and Gerard Fitzpatrick3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (3)University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Modelling microscopic features of streamer encounters, electric fields, electron beams and X-ray bursts (70287)
Christoph Koehn, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark; Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Pavlo Kochkin, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612, Netherlands and Ute Ebert, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ground Level Observations of a Possible Downward-Beamed TGF during a Rocket-Triggered Lightning Flash at Camp Blanding, Florida in August 2014 (76770)
Alan Bozarth, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, Eric S Cramer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Hamid K Rassoul, Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, United States, Martin A Uman, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Douglas Jordan, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and J Eric Grove, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
The impact of angular scattering on the runaway threshold definition, consequences on the thermal runaway acceleration mechanism. (79325)
Olivier Chanrion, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, Zdenek Bonaventura, Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Electronics, Brno, Czech Republic, Torsten Neubert, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark and Anne Bourdon, LPP-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Detection of multiple TGFs produced by the same thunderstorm system (72243)
Alessandro Ursi1, Martino Marisaldi2, Marco Tavani1, Stefano Dietrich3, Daniele Casella4 and Paolo Sanò4, (1)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy, (2)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)ISAC-CNR, Rome, Italy, (4)CNR ISAC, Roma, Italy
Flash-Bang Detector to Model the Attenuation of High-Energy Photons (83693)
Nicanor Pagsanjan III, College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA, United States, Nicole Ann Kelley, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States; University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, David Miles Smith, University of California, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and John Glen Sample, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Lightning-Based Search for Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes in Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Data (85360)
Kareem Omar, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Michael S Briggs, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States, Stan Heckman, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Robert H Holzworth II, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
TRYAD: a Pair of CubeSats to Measure Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash Beams (76269)
Michael S Briggs1, J-M Wersinger2,3, Michael Fogle Jr.3, Saâd Biaz4 and Peter Jenke5, (1)Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States, (2)Auburn University at Montgomery, Physics, Montgomery, AL, United States, (3)Auburn University, Physics, Auburn, United States, (4)Auburn University, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Enhanced detection of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes by AGILE (77516)
Martino Marisaldi1, Andrea Argan2, Alessandro Ursi3, Thomas Gjesteland4, Fabio Fuschino5, Claudio Labanti6, Marcello Galli7, Marco Tavani3, Carlotta Pittori8, Francesco Verrecchia9, Fabio D'Amico10, Nikolai Ostgaard11, Sandro Mereghetti12, Riccardo Campana6, Paolo Cattaneo13, Andrea Bulgarelli6, Sergio Colafrancesco14, Stefano Dietrich15, Francesco Longo16, Fulvio Gianotti6, Paolo Giommi9, Andrea Rappoldi13, Massimo Trifoglio6 and Alessio Trois17, (1)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)INAF IAPS, Roma, Italy, (3)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy, (4)University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, (5)Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Bologna, Italy, (6)National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy, (7)ENEA, Bologna, Italy, (8)INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Roma (INAF-OAR), Rome, Italy, (9)ASI Science Data Center, Roma, Italy, (10)Italian Space Agency, Roma, Italy, (11)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (12)INAF IASF Milano, Milano, Italy, (13)INFN, Pavia, Italy, (14)INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Roma, Italy, (15)ISAC-CNR, Rome, Italy, (16)Università di Trieste, Dipartimento di Fisica, Trieste, Italy, (17)INAF Osservatorio di Radioastronomia, Cagliari, Italy
Modeling of the laboratory streamer discharge (78540)
Nikolai G Lehtinen1, Nikolai Ostgaard2 and Pavlo Kochkin2, (1)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway

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