AE13A
The Meteorology and Climatology of Lightning and General Contributions I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3001 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Steven J Goodman, NOAA NESDIS, GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Christopher J Schultz, NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
Chairs:  Maribeth Stolzenburg, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States and Kristin M Kuhlman, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
13:40
Performance Improvements in Long-Range Lightning Detection Networks and their Application in Weather Forecasting (Invited) (60563)
Steven Businger, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
13:55
Beijing Lightning Network (BLNET): Configuration, Function and Preliminary Results (68146)
Xiushu Qie1, Dongfang Wang1, Yu Wang1, Mingyuan Liu1, Ye Tian1 and Gaopeng Lu2, (1)IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China
14:10
Simulating High Lightning Flash Rates at Upper Levels in Strong and Severe Thunderstorms (70646)
Edward Mansell, National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK, United States
14:25
Preliminary Results from the 2015 NMT Interferometer Campaign in Colorado (77185)
Mark A Stanley, New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States
14:40
Initial Electric Field Changes of Lightning Flashes in Two Thunderstorms (70265)
Thomas C Marshall, Maribeth Stolzenburg, Sumedhe Karunarathne and Ryan Chapman, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States
14:55
Insights into High Peak Current In-cloud Lightning Events during Thunderstorms (70131)
Fanchao Lyu, Steven A Cummer and Lindsay Erin McTague, Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Durham, NC, United States
15:10
Observations of High Peak Current 'lull' Lightning Flashes (77100)
Yang Zhang1,2, Paul R Krehbiel2, Harald E Edens2 and Michael Stock3, (1)CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China, (2)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
15:25
Observations of electrical discharges during eruptions of Sakurajima volcano (82013)
Harald E Edens, New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States