AE24A:
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms I


Submit an Abstract to this Session


Session ID#: 59229

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:  Amitabh Nag, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Michael S Briggs, UA Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, 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:

First half year of TGF observations by ASIM (Invited) (346938)
Nikolai Ostgaard1, Torsten Neubert2, Reglero Victor3, Kjetil Ullaland1, Shiming Yang1, Georgi Genov4, Martino Marisaldi1, Andrew Mezentsev4, Carolina Maiorana4, Pavlo Kochkin4, Nikolai G Lehtinen4, David Sarria1, Bilal Hasan Qureshi1, Arne Solberg4, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen5, Irfan Kuvvetli5, Freddy Christiansen6, Olivier Chanrion2, Matthias Heumesser6, Javier Navarro-Gonzalez7, Paul Henry Connell7, Christopher J Eyles8 and ASIM team, (1)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (2)Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (3)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (4)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (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
TGF Imaging. First ASIM results. (367802)
Reglero Victor, University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain
Electron acceleration models for thermal runaway and lightning radiation (356244)
Anthony Schmalzried and Alejandro Luque, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA)-CSIC, Granada, Spain
Can reduced air density along the lightning leader path to ground increase x-ray production relative to normal atmospheric conditions? (360309)
Istvan Kereszy1, Manh D Tran2,3, Vladimir A Rakov1 and Joseph Dwyer4, (1)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, United States, (2)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Rhombus Power Inc., Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States
High-Energy Radiation Phenomena from Winter Thunderstorms and Lightning in Japan (Invited) (365555)
Teruaki Enoto1, Yuuki Wada2, Yoshihiro Furuta3, Kazuhiro Nakazawa4, Takayuki Yuasa5, Kazuo Makishima6, Mitsuteru Sato7, Yousuke Sato8, Harufumi Tsuchiya6, Daigo Umemoto9, Gregory S Bowers10, Masashi Kamogawa11, Yoshitaka Nakamura12, Takeshi Morimoto13 and David Smith14, (1)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Division of Electrical, Electronic and Infocommunications Engineering, Osaka, Japan, (3)JAEA, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (5)RIKEN, Saitama, Japan, (6)RIKEN, Wako, Japan, (7)Hokkaido University, Faculty of Science, Sapporo, Japan, (8)RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Kobe, Japan, (9)RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, (10)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (11)Tokyo Gakugei Univ, Tokyo, Japan, (12)Kobe City College of Tech., Kobe, Japan, (13)Kindai University, Osaka, Japan, (14)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
A Study of Consecutive Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes using the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (456170)
Matthew Stanbro, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Michael S Briggs, CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, Eric S Cramer, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, Steven A Cummer, Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, United States and J Eric Grove, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, United States

See more of: Atmospheric and Space Electricity