AE33B:
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms Posters

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Session ID#: 31102

Session Description:
Highly energetic radiation has been observed in conjunction with thunderstorm electrical activity in recent years, at timescales from microseconds and milliseconds (usually coincident with lightning) to minutes, and from the vantage points of satellites, aircraft, balloon-borne instruments, and instruments on the ground. High-energy electrons, positrons, gamma-rays, and possibly neutrons have been observed, but the physical processes and enabling meteorological contexts involved remain mysteries. We invite experimental, theoretical, and observational contributions investigating all aspects of energetic radiation produced in connection with atmospheric electricity, including terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), terrestrial electron beams (TEBs), positron and neutron production, high-energy radiation from stepped leaders, runaway relativistic electron avalanche, observations of lightning and thunderstorms associated with energetic radiation, effects of thunderstorm electric fields on cosmic-ray showers, and physical models of radiation production.
Primary Convener:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Conveners:  Michael S Briggs, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States, Gaopeng Lu, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Amitabh Nag, Florida Institute of Technology, APSS, Melbourne, FL, United States
Chairs:  Amitabh Nag, Florida Institute of Technology, APSS, Melbourne, FL, United States and Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
Index Terms:

3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4301 Atmospheric [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Developing the TRYAD Science Instrument (230187)
Keaton Thomas Van Eck1,2, Peter Jenke3, Michael S Briggs4, Jared Fuchs3 and Lucas Capps3, (1)University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, (2)University of Dallas, Physics, Irving, TX, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
TGF Observations From A Small, Low-Cost, Low-Mass, High-Speed Versatile Detector System. (300055)
John Glen Sample1, David Miles Smith2, Jonathan Johnson3, Charles Varney4, John Gannon4, Scott Hunter5, Jonathan Murtaugh4, James Durtka4, Benjamin Cunningham4 and The LAFTR UCSC team, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, (4)Montana State University, Bozeman, United States, (5)Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID, United States
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) Catalog (297023)
Michael S Briggs1, Oliver Roberts2, Gerard Fitzpatrick2, Matthew Stanbro3, Eric Cramer3, Bagrat G Mailyan4, Sheila McBreen2, Valerie Connaughton5, J Eric Grove6, Alexandre Chekhtman7 and Robert H Holzworth II8, (1)Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA, Huntsville, United States, (2)University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Alikhanian National Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia, (5)Univ of AL in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, United States, (7)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (8)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Clustering ENTLN sferics to improve TGF temporal analysis (286067)
Elena Pradhan1,2, Michael S Briggs3, Matthew Stanbro2, Eric Cramer2, Stan Heckman4 and Oliver Roberts5, (1)National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)UA Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States
Airborne and Ground-Level Searches for Ionizing Radiation from Thunderstorms with iSTORM (288478)
J Eric Grove1, Eric A. Wulf2, Richard S. Woolf2 and Phillip M Bitzer3, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
The TETRA-II Experiment to Observe Terrestrial Gamma Flashes at Ground Level – Analysis of Nearby Thunderstorm Activity and Comparison with Lightning Data (283300)
Deirdre Smith1, Christopher Adams2, Michael L Cherry2, Samer Al-Nussirat3, Shuju Bai4, Yaser Banadaki4, Phillip M Bitzer5, Jonah Hoffman6, Ebrahim Khosravi4, Marc Legault7, Mina Orang4, Donald J Pleshinger2, Reniel Rodriguez8, Jill C. Trepanier1, Anderson Sunda-Meya9 and Natalie Zimmer2, (1)Louisiana State University, Geography & Anthropology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Physics & Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, SSL, Berkeley, United States, (4)Southern University, Computer Science, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)Louisiana State University, Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (7)University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon, Physics, Bayamón, PR, United States, (8)University of Puerto Rico at Utuado, Utuado, PR, United States, (9)Xavier University of Louisiana, Physics & Computer Science, New Orleans, LA, United States
Observation of fluctuation of gamma-ray count rate accompanying thunderstorm activity and energy spectrum of gamma rays in the atmosphere up to several kilometers altitude from the ground (269693)
Tatsuo Torii, JAEA Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Remote Sensing Div., CLADS, Nucl. Sci. Res. Inst., Tokai-mura, Japan, Yukihisa Sanada, JAEA Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Fukushima Environmental Center, Minamisouma, Japan and Akira Watanabe, Fukushima University, Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima, Japan
Estimating the global production rate of TGFs (272630)
Kjetil Haakonseth Albrechtsen1, Nikolai Ostgaard2, Martino Marisaldi2, Thomas Gjesteland3 and Nini Berge4, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (3)University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, (4)University of Orleans, Orleans, France
A multi-pulse, downward terrestrial gamma-ray flash from a winter thunderstorm in Japan (268327)
David Miles Smith1, Gregory S Bowers2, Masashi Kamogawa3, Michael Stock4, Zen Kawasaki5, Yasuhide Hobara6, Tomoo Ushio7, Stan Heckman8, Steven A Cummer9, Xuan-Min Shao2 and Joseph R Dwyer10, (1)University of California, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Tokyo Gakugei Univ, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States, (5)Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, (6)Earth Environment Research Station, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, (7)Osaka University, Division of Electrical, Electronic, and Infocommunications Engineering, Osaka, Japan, (8)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States, (9)Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
Terrestrial Gamma Flashes at Ground Level -- TETRA-II Instrumentation (239956)
Donald J Pleshinger1, Christopher Adams1, Samer Al-Nussirat2, Shuju Bai3, Yaser Banadaki3, Phillip M Bitzer4, Michael L Cherry1, Jonah Hoffmann1, Ebrahim Khosravi3, Marc Legault5, Mina Orang3, Reniel Rodriguez6, Deirdre Smith7, Jill C. Trepanier7, Anderson Sunda-Meya8 and Natalie Zimmer1, (1)Louisiana State University, Physics & Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Space Sciences Laboratory, SSL, Berkeley, United States, (3)Southern University, Computer Science, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon, Physics, Bayamón, PR, United States, (6)University of Puerto Rico at Utuado, Utuado, PR, United States, (7)Louisiana State University, Geography & Anthropology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (8)Xavier University of Louisiana, Physics & Computer Science, New Orleans, LA, United States
Initial Breakdown Pulse Amplitudes in Intracloud and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flashes (241685)
Thomas C Marshall, Emily Morgan Smith, Maribeth Stolzenburg, Sumedhe Karunarathne and Raymond David Siedlecki II, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States
Correlation Of Terrestrial gamma flashes, Electric fields, and Lightning strikes (COTEL) in thunderstorms using networked balloon payloads developed by university and community college students (241163)
Brad Joseph Landry1, Daneisha Blair2, Jordan Causey3, Joshua Collins1, Allen Davis3, Victor Fernandez-Kim3, John Kennedy4, Nicholas Pate4, Charles Kearney4, Christopher Schayer5, Elaine Turk3, Michael L Cherry1, Colleen H. Fava1, Douglas Granger6, Michael Stewart1 and T Gregory Guzik6, (1)Louisiana State University, Physics & Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Florida State University, Meteorology, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Mechanical Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Louisiana State University, Electrical Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (5)Louisiana State University, Computer Science, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (6)Louisiana State University, Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Modeling the 511 keV background enhancements observed by aircrafts in thunderstorms (257635)
David Sarria1, Pavlo Kochkin2 and Nikolai Ostgaard1, (1)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
The Connection Between Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and Energetic In-Cloud Lightning Pulses (260269)
Steven A Cummer1, Fanchao Lyu2, Michael S Briggs3, Eric Cramer4, Matthew Stanbro4, Oliver Roberts5 and David Miles Smith6, (1)Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, United States, (2)Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, (3)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Gamma-ray observations at 20 km altitude above thunderstorms (270428)
Nikolai Ostgaard1, Hugh J Christian Jr2, J Eric Grove3, Mason G Quick4, Samer Al-Nussirat5, Eric A. Wulf6, Georgi Genov7, Kjetil Ullaland1, Pavlo Kochkin7 and Martino Marisaldi1, (1)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)Space Sciences Laboratory, SSL, Berkeley, United States, (6)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (7)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
Mechanisms important to later stages of streamer system development (270823)
Nikolai G. Lehtinen1, Brant Carlson2, Pavlo Kochkin3 and Nikolai Ostgaard1, (1)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (2)Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, (3)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
A Population Synthesis Study of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (274727)
Eric S Cramer1, Michael S Briggs2, Matthew Stanbro1, Joseph R Dwyer3, Bagrat G Mailyan4 and Oliver Roberts5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center (EOS), Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States
Radio-Frequency Emissions from Streamer Collisions: Implications for High-Energy Processes. (275438)
Alejandro Luque, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA)-CSIC, Granada, Spain
Lightning leader models of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (275953)
Joseph R Dwyer1, Ningyu Liu2 and Kevin M. A. Ihaddadene1, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
Balloon Borne Instrumentation for Detection of Gamma Ray Glows (283047)
Christopher Francis Francis Sterpka1, Mahdi Bagheri2, Joseph R Dwyer3, Ningyu Liu1, Kyle Morman2, Jon Leon Gadbois4, Alan Bozarth5, Levi Boggs6, Bagrat G Mailyan7, Amitabh Nag8, Steven M Lazarus9, Matthew Austin8, Fernando Aguirre10, Jeff Colvin11, Vanessa Haley11 and Hamid K Rassoul12, (1)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Physics Department, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, (6)Florida Institute of Technology, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States, (7)Alikhanian National Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia, (8)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (9)Florida Inst Tech, Department of Ocean Engineering and Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (10)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Melbourne, FL, United States, (11)Florida Institute of Technology, Ocean Engineering and Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (12)Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, United States
Simulating TGF and gamma ray emission above and within stormclouds due to the interaction of TeV cosmic ray shower electrons/positrons/photons with plausible electric field geometries generated in stormclouds. (288811)
Paul Henry Connell, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain

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