AE22A:
Thunderstorm Electrification, Lightning, and General Topics in Atmospheric and Space Electricity III

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Session ID#: 31078

Session Description:
Capabilities for observing and modeling lightning and thunderstorm electrification have improved considerably in recent years. Interferometers, Lightning Mapping Arrays, long-range lightning detection, high-speed video, polarimetric radars, and in situ measurements have provided critical new information concerning lightning physics and the storm properties that affect electrification processes and lightning production. Computational advances have enabled increasingly sophisticated models treating these phenomena. These advances also have led to new lightning climatologies, to new approaches forecasting lightning occurrence, and to new methods for assimilating lightning observations into numerical weather prediction models. This session topic invites abstracts dealing with any of these themes. Abstracts describing the development of related observing technologies and computer algorithms also are invited.
Primary Convener:  Donald R MacGorman, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Kristin M Calhoun, National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK, United States, Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Maribeth Stolzenburg, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States
Chairs:  Xuan-Min Shao, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Rachel I Albrecht, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
OSPA Liaison:  Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling Spark Discharges in Dusty Supersonic Flow (296139)
Jason Sears, Mark Converse, Dave Grote, Chris Kueny, Allen Kuhl, Jens von der Linden and Brian Poole, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Lightning Enhancement Over Major Shipping Lanes (226356)
Robert H Holzworth II1, Joel A Thornton2, Katrina Virts3 and Todd P Mitchell1, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Why does negative CG lightning have subsequent return strokes? (256636)
Robert A Wilkes1, Daniel Abrahm Kotovsky1, Martin A Uman2, Felipe Lenz Carvalho1 and Douglas Jordan3, (1)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Lightning Channel Corona Formation Treated as a Large System of Streamers (268477)
Brant Carlson1, Nikolai G Lehtinen2 and Pavlo Kochkin2, (1)Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, (2)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
HF and VHF Spectra of Fast Breakdown Processes (276056)
Ningyu Liu1, Julia Tilles2, Paul R Krehbiel3, Mark A Stanley4, William Rison5, Joseph R Dwyer6, Robert G Brown7 and Jennifer Wilson7, (1)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, United States, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center (EOS), Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (7)NASA Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, FL, United States
Lightning Mapping and Leader Propagation Reconstruction using LOFAR-LIM (250545)
Brian Hare1, Ute Ebert2, Casper Rutjes2, Olaf Scholten1 and Gia Thi Ngoc Trinh1, (1)University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, (2)Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
A Study of WWLLN Events in Florida Thunderstorms (224523)
Raymond David Siedlecki II1, Thomas C Marshall2, Maribeth Stolzenburg1 and Sumedhe Karunarathne1, (1)University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States, (2)Univ Mississippi, University, MS, United States
ENTLN Performance Characteristics Evaluated Using Independent Recordings of Natural and Rocket-Triggered Lightning in Florida (253743)
Yanan Zhu1, Vladimir A Rakov2, Manh D Tran3, Michael Stock4, Stan Heckman4, Charlie Liu5, Christopher Sloop4, Douglas M Jordan6, Martin A Uman7, Jaime Caicedo8, Daniel Abrahm Kotovsky8, Robert A Wilkes8, Felipe Lenz Carvalho8, Terry K Ngin9, William R Gamerota8, John Turk Pilkey10 and Brian Hare11, (1)Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, United States, (2)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, United States, (3)Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States, (5)Earth Networks, Germantown, MD, United States, (6)Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (7)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (8)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (9)Leidos, Arlington, VT, United States, (10)University of Florida, Winter Haven, FL, United States, (11)University of Florida, Gainesville, United States

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