AE31A:
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms II


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Session ID#: 63699

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:

Modeling and constraining a gamma-ray glow observed at 20 km altitude during the FEGS/ALOFT campaign (359235)
David Sarria1, Nikolai Ostgaard1, Hugh J Christian Jr2, J Eric Grove3, Mason G Quick2, Samer Al-Nussirat4, Eric A. Wulf5, Georgi Genov6, Kjetil Ullaland1, Pavlo Kochkin6, Martino Marisaldi1, Nikolai G. Lehtinen1, Andrew Mezentsev7, Shiming Yang1 and Richard J Blakeslee8, (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)Space Sciences Laboratory, SSL, Berkeley, United States, (5)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (6)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (7)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (8)NASA, Madison, United States
The Colombia ASIM Site: Lightning mapping, TLE observations and high energy radiation from lightning (459523)
Joan Montanya1, Jesús A López2, Oscar A Van Der Velde3, David Romero4, Daniel Aranguren5, Horacio Torres II6, John A. Taborda7, Edison A. Soto8, Julián G. Rodríguez-Ferreira8, Reglero Victor9 and Javier Navarro-Gonzalez10, (1)Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Department of Electrical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Electrical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Electrical Engineering, Terrassa, Spain, (4)UPC, Terrassa - Barcelone, Spain, (5)Keraunos SAS, Bogotá, Colombia, (6)National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, (7)Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia, (8)Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, (9)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (10)University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
New Design of AGILE Selection Criteria for TGFs (377939)
Carolina Maiorana1, Martino Marisaldi2, Nikolai Ostgaard2, Alessandro Ursi3 and Marco Tavani3, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (3)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy
Simulations of Radio Emissions from TGFs (375134)
Kevin M. A. Ihaddadene1, Joseph R Dwyer1 and Ningyu Liu2, (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
Measurement of High Energy Particles (Photons and Neutrons) Produced by the Atmosphere in the American Midwest in Time and Space Using an Array of Detectors--and Connecting those Measurements to Meteorological and Physical Atmospheric Conditions. (451267)
Christopher G Fasano, Monmouth College, Physics & Engineering, Monmouth, IL, United States and Monmouth College Lightning Research Group, Monmouth College, Physics, Monmouth, IL, United States

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