AE14A:
Atmospheric and Space Electricity General Contributions I


Session ID#: 9715

Session Description:
This session is for general contributions to lightning and atmospheric and space electricity research.
Primary Convener:  Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
Convener:  Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States
Chairs:  Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States and Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, United States
Index Terms:

3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Dynamics of a Relative Long Positive Streamer from an Isolated Hydrometeor (74616)
Feng Shi, Florida Institute of Technology, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, Ningyu Liu, University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States and Hamid K Rassoul, Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States
Characteristics of the Pulse Luminosity in the Initial Breakdown Stage of Cloud-to-Ground and Intracloud Lightning (68596)
Robert A Wilkes1, Martin A Uman2, John Turk Pilkey3 and Douglas Jordan1, (1)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)University of Florida, Winter Haven, FL, United States
Mathematical Constraints on the Use of Transmission Line Models for Simulating Initial Breakdown Pulses in Lightning Discharges (74380)
Caitano L. da Silva, New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Lab, Socorro, United States, Ryan A. Merrill, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Communications and Space Science Laboratory, University Park, PA, United States and Victor P Pasko, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Modeling Structure, Dynamics, and Emission of Compact Intracloud Discharges (81990)
Stanislav Davydenko, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and Dmitry Iudin, Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
New Observations of the Attachment Process in Natural Lightning (58971)
Manh D Tran1, Vladimir A Rakov2 and Shreeharsh Mallick1, (1)Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States
Return Stroke Current Reflections in Rocket-Triggered Lightning (70693)
Jaime Caicedo1, Martin A Uman2, Douglas Jordan1, Christopher John Biagi3 and Brian Hare4, (1)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Characteristics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Return Strokes Occurring over Land and Ocean (85108)
Amitabh Nag, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Kenneth L Cummins, Florida Institute of Technology, Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States

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