AE14A
Atmospheric and Space Electricity General Contributions I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3001 (Moscone West)
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
16:00
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
16:15
Characteristics of the Pulse Luminosity in the Initial Breakdown Stage of Cloud-to-Ground and Intracloud Lightning (68596)
Robert Ashmore Wilkes, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
16:30
Mathematical Constraints on the Use of Transmission Line Models for Simulating Initial Breakdown Pulses in Lightning Discharges (74380)
Caitano L. da Silva, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Communications and Space Science Laboratory, University Park, PA, United States
16:45
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
17:00
Do lightning positive leaders really “step”? (64940)
Danyal Petersen, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
17:15
New Observations of the Attachment Process in Natural Lightning (58971)
Manh D Tran, Vladimir A Rakov and Shreeharsh Mallick, Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, FL, United States
17:30
Return Stroke Current Reflections in Rocket-Triggered Lightning (70693)
Jaime Caicedo1, Martin A Uman2, Douglas Jordan1, Christopher John Biagi3 and Brian Hare2, (1)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
17:45
Characteristics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Return Strokes Occurring over Land and Ocean (85108)
Amitabh Nag, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States and Kenneth L Cummins, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States