AE41A:
A New Era of Lightning Observations from Space

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Session ID#: 23599

Session Description:
The recent launch of the next generation of lightning imagers (GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper, FY-4 Geostationary Lightning Imager, International Space Station Lightning Imaging Sensor), and the planned MTG-Lightning Imager among other missions ushers in a new era of near-global measurements of lightning activity to extend almost two decades of lightning observations from low-Earth orbit and ground-based lightning networks. This session topic addresses the new perspective and understanding these space-based measurements provide, and the integrated information on storms and other high-impact environmental phenomena that can be gleaned from combining information from both space- and ground-based measurements of lightning. In addition to these process studies, abstracts discussing recent efforts toward calibration/validation of space-based lightning imagers and related field campaigns are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Steven J Goodman, NOAA NESDIS, GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Scott D Rudlosky, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, United States
Chairs:  Steven J Goodman, NOAA NESDIS, GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Richard J Blakeslee, NASA, Madison, 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]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Geostationary Lightning Mapper: Lessons Learned from Post Launch Test (Invited) (229863)
Samantha Edgington1, Clemens E Tillier1, Howard Demroff1, Roel VanBezooijen1, Hugh J Christian Jr2 and Phillip M Bitzer3, (1)Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Operational Use of Geostationary Lightning Mapper Data (254663)
Scott D Rudlosky, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, GEO, Kent, United States
Combining GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper with the ground based Earth Networks Total Lightning Network (274519)
Michael Stock, Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States, Jeff L Lapierre, AEM, Research & Development, Germantown, MD, United States and Yanan Zhu, Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, United States
Simultaneous High-Speed Camera and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Observations of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning (287283)
Larissa Antunes da Silva, Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN), Hydrology, São José dos Campos, Brazil, Scott D Rudlosky, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, United States, Michael J Peterson, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Osmar Pinto Jr, INPE, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil and Antonio Carlos V Saraiva, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

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