AE31A
Atmospheric and Space Electricity General Contributions II Posters

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, 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, AL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Uman Equations, Jefimenko Equations, and Lightning Electromagnetics (81217)
Timothy Hamlin and Xuan-Min Shao, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Kamchatka's Subterranean Electric Bursts Preceding Lightning Strikes in the Avacha Bay Territory: Case Study during Night of July 21(22), 2015 (63238)
Vadim Bobrovskiy, Distant School Cosmic-Meteo-Tectonics, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, Russia
 
Sub-ionospheric Propagation of Preliminary Breakdown Pulses Preceding Negative Cloud-to Ground Lightning Discharges (61309)
Ivana Kolmasova1,2, Ondrej Santolik3, Thomas Farges4, Steven A Cummer5, Radek Lan3 and Ludek Uhlir3, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Prague, Czech Republic, (2)Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (3)Institute of Atmospheric Physics ACSR, Praha 4, Czech Republic, (4)CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France, (5)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Durham, NC, United States
 
Peak Currents and Propagation Velocities of Initial Breakdown Pulses in Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flashes (62905)
Nilmini Dilrukshi Karunarathne, Thomas C Marshall, Sumedhe Karunarathne, Maribeth Stolzenburg and Nadeeka Karunarathna, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States
 
Electrostatic Changes Observed with Narrow Bipolar Pulses (74172)
Sumedhe Karunarathne, Thomas C Marshall, Maribeth Stolzenburg and Nadeeka Karunarathna, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States
 
Constraining lightning channel growth dynamics by comparison of time domain electromagnetic simulations to Huntsville Alabama Marx Meter Array observations (74789)
Brant E Carlson1, Phillip M Bitzer2 and Jeff Burchfield2, (1)Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Lightning spectra at 100,000 fps (79644)
Matthew G McHarg, United States Air Force Academy, Department of Physics, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
 
Model of the Streamer Zone of a Leader (65029)
Abhay Raina1, Gennady M Milikh1, Mikhail Shneider2, Alexandre Likhanskii3 and Anand George1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States
 
An M-component with a Concurrent Dart Leader Traveling along Different Paths during a Lightning Flash (70690)
Maribeth Stolzenburg1, Thomas C Marshall2, Sumedhe Karunarathne2, Nadeeka Karunarathna2 and Richard E Orville3, (1)University of Mississippi, University, MS, United States, (2)University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States, (3)Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
 
Studying the Formation Mechanism of New Ground Strike Points in Natural Negative Cloud-to-Ground Lightning (81432)
Leandro Zanella de Souza Campos, Inst Nac Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil
 
Luminosity waveforms versus height for triggered-lightning return strokes and M-components (62773)
Felipe Lenz Carvalho1, Martin A Uman2, Douglas Jordan2 and Terry K Ngin3, (1)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Leidos, Arlington, VT, United States
 
 
An Integral-Equation Based Leader-Return Stroke Coupled Model for Return Stroke Current and Light Simulations (66817)
Mingli Chen and Shuyao Cai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
Simultaneous observations of strong ELF pulses (Q-bursts) using the World ELF Radiolocation Array (64378)
Janusz Mlynarczyk1, Andrzej Kulak1,2, Jerzy Kubisz2 and Krakow ELF Research Team and Collaborators, (1)AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland, (2)Jagiellonian University, Astronomical Observatory, Kraków, Poland
 
Acoustic vs Interferometric Measurements of Lightning (83221)
Rene O Arechiga1, Hector Erives2, Richard G. Sonnenfeld3, Mark A Stanley4, William Rison5, Ronald J Thomas5, Harald E Edens4, Jeff L Lapierre1, Mike Stock4, Daniel Jensen4 and Keith Morris6, (1)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, El Paso, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Physics, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (6)National Radio Astron Observation, Socorro, NM, United States
 
Acoustic Properties of Return Strokes and M-components From Rocket-Triggered Lightning (83589)
Maher A Dayeh, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Stephen A Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, Martin A Uman, Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Douglas Jordan, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Felipe Lenz Carvalho, University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Hamid Rassoul, Florida Inst Tech, Melbourne, FL, United States
 
Multi-mode Observations of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strokes (62046)
Mark William Smith, Braden J. Smith, Michael D. Clemenson and Joshua David Zollweg, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Improvements to a High Spectral Resolution, Radiation-Hydrodynamics Model of a Lightning Return Stroke and Comparisons with Measured Spectra and Inferred Plasma Properties (70931)
Jarrod Douglas Edwards, Philip Dreike, Mark William Smith, Michael D. Clemenson and Joshua David Zollweg, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Oceanic Lightning versus Continental Lightning: VLF Peak Current Discrepancies (84315)
Neal A Dupree Jr, University of Florida, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Robert C Moore, Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engrg, Gainesville, FL, United States