AE21A:
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms I
Session ID#: 8040
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: Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States and Michael S Briggs, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison: Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Maribeth Stolzenburg and Thomas C Marshall, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States
Olaf Scholten1,2, Gia Thi Ngoc Trinh1, P. Schellart3, Ute Ebert4, Casper Rutjes5, A. Nelles3, Stijn Buitink6, S. ter Veen7, Jorg Horandel7, Arthur Corstanje7, J.P. Rachen7, S. Thoudam7, Heino Falcke8, Christoph C. Koehn4, Ad A.M. van den Berg1, Krijn K.D. de Vries2 and Laura Rossetto3, (1)University of Groningen, KVI-CART, Groningen, Netherlands, (2)Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Dienst ELEM, Brussels, Belgium, (3)Radboud University Nijmegen, imapp, Nijmegen, Netherlands, (4)Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (5)Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, 1098, Netherlands, (6)Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Astrophysical Institute, Brussels, Belgium, (7)Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, (8)Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Joseph R Dwyer1,2, David Miles Smith3, Bryna J Hazelton4, Brian Grefenstette5, Nicole Ann Kelley6, Alexander W Lowell6, Meagan Schaal7 and Hamid K Rassoul8, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center (EOS), Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of California, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)University of Washington, Department of Physics,, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)US Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (8)Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, United States
J Eric Grove1, Bernard F. Phlips1, Eric A. Wulf1, Anthony L. Hutcheson1, Lee J. Mitchell1, Richard S. Woolf1, W. Neil Johnson1, Meagan Schaal1, Martin A Uman2, Douglas Jordan3, Brian Hare3, Hamid K Rassoul4 and Alan Bozarth5, (1)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States, (5)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States
Bagrat G Mailyan1, Michael S Briggs2, Eric S Cramer1, Valerie Connaughton3, Joseph R Dwyer4 and Gerard Fitzpatrick5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (3)Univ of AL in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (5)University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Nikolai Ostgaard1, Thomas Gjesteland1,2, Hugh J Christian Jr3, Kjetil Haakonseth Albrechtsen1, Brant Carlson4, Andrew Collier5, Steve Cummer6 and Gaopeng Lu7, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, (5)University of KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu, South Africa, (6)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Durham, NC, United States, (7)Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Sebastien J Celestin, LPC2E, University of Orleans, CNRS, Orleans, France, Wei Xu, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States and Victor P Pasko, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
