AE33A:
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms III Posters


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Session ID#: 46067

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:  Amitabh Nag, Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, David Miles Smith, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Michael S Briggs, UA Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Chairs:  David Miles Smith, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Index Terms:

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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Performance of MXGS detector in Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash detection by Atmospheric-Space Interactions Monitor on the International Space Station. (362531)
Pavlo Kochkin1, Nikolai Ostgaard2, Torsten Neubert3, Reglero Victor4, Kjetil Ullaland2, Shiming Yang2, Georgi Genov1, Martino Marisaldi2, Andrew Mezentsev1, Nikolai G. Lehtinen2, David Sarria2, Bilal Hasan Qureshi2, Arne Solberg1, Carolina Maiorana1, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen5, Irfan Kuvvetli5, Freddy Christiansen6, Olivier Chanrion3, Matthias Heumesser6, Javier Navarro-Gonzalez7, Paul Henry Connell7 and Christopher J Eyles8, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (3)Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (4)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (5)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (6)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (7)University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain, (8)University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Lightning-triggered termination of a gamma-ray glow in a Japanese winter thunderstorm (378035)
Yuuki Wada1,2, Gregory S Bowers3, Teruaki Enoto4, Masashi Kamogawa5, Yoshitaka Nakamura6, Takeshi Morimoto7, David Miles Smith8, Yoshihiro Furuta9, Kazuhiro Nakazawa10, Takayuki Yuasa11, Atsushi Matsuki12, Mamoru Kubo13, Toru Tamagawa14, Kazuo Makishima11 and Harufumi Tsuchiya15, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)RIKEN, Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Japan, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (5)Tokyo Gakugei Univ, Tokyo, Japan, (6)Kobe City College of Tech., Kobe, Japan, (7)Kindai University, Osaka, Japan, (8)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (9)Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ibaraki, Japan, (10)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (11)RIKEN, Wako, Japan, (12)Kanazawa University, Institute of Nature and Environment Technology,, Kanazawa, Japan, (13)Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, (14)RIKEN, Saitama, Japan, (15)JAEA Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Toki, Japan
The Dependence of TGF Pulse Arrival Time on its Observation Angle Relative to the TGF Beam Axis (400831)
Paul Henry Connell, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
Ground-Level Detection of Gamma Ray Flashes from Downward Lightning Leaders (413787)
John Belz1, Rasha Abbasi2, Paul R Krehbiel3, Ryan LeVon1, Jackson Remington4, William Rison5, Dan Rodeheffer6 and Mark A Stanley7, (1)University of Utah, Physics Department, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Physics Department, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, United States, (4)University of Utah, Physics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech, Socorro, United States, (6)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, United States, (7)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
Balloon-Borne Instrumentation for Detection of Gamma-ray Glows from Lightning (420096)
Mahdi Bagheri1, Christopher Francis Francis Sterpka2, Joseph Dwyer3, Ningyu Liu4, Derrek Perham1, Kyle Morman1, Mark Widholm5, Christopher Bancroft6, Jason Legere6, Peter F. Bloser6, Matthew Austin7, Mathieu N. Plaisir8, Amitabh Nag7, Shahab Arabshahi9, Jason Chiappa10, Steven M Lazarus10, Michael E Splitt10 and Hamid K Rassoul11, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics and Astronomy & Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (8)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (9)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering and Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (11)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States
Simulating Electric Field Effects on Cosmic Ray Particle and Radio Frequency Observations (421627)
William Blaine, Xuan-Min Shao, Gregory S Bowers and Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
The Possibility of the Ground Based Detection of Gamma Rays from the Reverse Positron Beam of a TGF. (451758)
John Ortberg1, David Smith2, Joseph Li2, Gregory S Bowers3 and Joseph R Dwyer4, (1)US Air Force Academy, and University of California, Santa Cruz, USAF Academy, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
A summary of high-energy radiation events from recent observing campaigns at ground-based sites in Japan, Mexico, and Canada (452120)
Jeffrey Michael Chaffin1, Gregory S Bowers2, John Ortberg3, Michael Schneider4, David Miles Smith5, Ali Hussein6, Masashi Kamogawa7, Ishmeen Sra6, Xuan-Min Shao8 and Brenda Dingus2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)US Air Force Academy, and University of California, Santa Cruz, USAF Academy, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, SCIPP, Santa Cruz, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)Ryerson University, Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto, ON, Canada, (7)Tokyo Gakugei Univ, Tokyo, Japan, (8)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, United States
Investigation of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) Production Mechanisms. (452885)
Samer Alnussirat, Louisiana State University, Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, United States, Hugh J Christian Jr, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Gerald J Fishman, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Jeffrey C Burchfield, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Development of balloon borne gamma for use in Correlation Of Terrestrial gamma flashes, Electric fields, and Lightning strikes (COTEL) project. (360415)
Aaron Patrick Ryan1, Emma Western1, Hannah Dattilo2 and T Gregory Guzik1, (1)Louisiana State University, Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Oglethorpe University, Physics, Atlanta, GA, United States
High Flux and Multiple Peak Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes Detected by Atmosphere-Space Interaction Monitor (367322)
Andrew Mezentsev1, Nikolai Ostgaard2, Pavlo Kochkin1, Kjetil Ullaland2, Nikolai G. Lehtinen2, Martino Marisaldi2, Torsten Neubert3, Reglero Victor4, Shiming Yang2, Georgi Genov1, David Sarria Sr2, Bilal Hasan Qureshi2, Arne Solberg1, Carolina Maiorana1, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen5, Irfan Kuvvetli5, Freddy Christiansen6, Olivier Chanrion3, Matthias Heumesser6, Javier Navarro-Gonzalez7, Paul Henry Connell7 and Christopher J Eyles8, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (3)Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (4)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (5)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (6)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (7)University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain, (8)University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
The TETRA-II Experiment to Observe Terrestrial Gamma Flashes at Ground Level -- Instrumentation and Results (369692)
Donald J Pleshinger1, Samer Al-Nussirat2, Shuju Bai3, Yaser Banadaki4, Michael L Cherry1, Jonah Hoffmann1, Alex Igl1, Ebrahim Khosravi4, Marc Legault5, Javier Alexis Arias6, Reniel Rodriguez7, Deirdre Smith8, Jill C. Trepanier8 and Anderson Sunda-Meya9, (1)Louisiana State University, Physics & Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Space Sciences Laboratory, SSL, Berkeley, United States, (3)Southern University and A & M College, Computer Science, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Southern University, Computer Science, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (5)University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon, Physics, Bayamón, PR, United States, (6)CENAMEP, Panama City, Panama, (7)University of Puerto Rico at Utuado, Utuado, PR, United States, (8)Louisiana State University, Geography & Anthropology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (9)Xavier University of Louisiana, Physics & Computer Science, New Orleans, LA, United States
Co-Observations of Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) array and the Gamma-ray Observations During Overhead Thunderstorms (GODOT) instrument (381902)
Gregory S Bowers1, William Blaine1, Xuan-Min Shao2, David Smith3, Brenda Dingus1, Michael P McCarthy4, Michael Schneider5, Jeffrey Michael Chaffin6 and HAWC Collaboration, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, United States, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, SCIPP, Santa Cruz, United States, (6)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States
Development of a Light, Fast, and Inexpensive TGF Detector (411531)
Reyann Kathleen Larkey, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, John Glen Sample, Montana State University, Bozeman, United States and David Smith, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Is there a thundercloud electric field threshold for terrestrial gamma-ray flash production? (428721)
David Miles Smith, University of California, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, Gregory S Bowers, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Masashi Kamogawa, Tokyo Gakugei Univ, Tokyo, Japan, Daohong Wang, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, Joseph Dwyer, University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States and J Eric Grove, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, United States
Developing the Terrestrial Rays Analysis and Detection (TRYAD) Science Instrument (456365)
Rafael Guido Gonzalez, Citadel Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
GLD360-Reported Radio Emissions Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (461240)
Amitabh Nag1, Bagrat Mailyan2, Ryan Said3, Joseph Dwyer4, Michael S Briggs5, Eric Cramer6, Oliver J Roberts7, Matthew Stanbro6 and Hamid K Rassoul8, (1)Florida Institute of Technology, APSS, Melbourne, FL, United States, (2)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States, (3)Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (5)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, United States
Spectral analysis of individual Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes using Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor data and lightning leader models (394901)
Bagrat G Mailyan, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Wei Xu, University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Sebastien J Celestin, CNRS - LPCE, Orleans Cedex 2, France, Michael S Briggs, CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States and Fermi-GBM TGF team

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