FIRST SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATIONS OF OPTICAL LIGHTNING AND TERRESTRIAL GAMMA FLASH FROM SPACE| Session Chairs: | Ningyu Liu, Victor Pasko, Martin Fullekrug |
The recent discovery that lightning discharges can cause energetic radiation, relativistic particles, and transient luminous events has marked a profound advance in our understanding of the Earth's atmospheric electrodynamic behavior. This session explores these novel processes and their impact on the near-Earth environment. The session solicits contributions that advance knowledge in the areas of the global atmospheric electric circuit, lightning physics, transient luminous events, energetic radiation, relativistic particles, and their impact on the Earth's upper atmosphere and the magnetosphere. Interdisciplinary studies which emphasize the connection between atmospheric layers and the relation between lightning-related effects and climate change are particularly welcome.
16:00 HGE02.1 FIRST SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATIONS OF OPTICAL LIGHTNING AND TERRESTRIAL GAMMA FLASH FROM SPACE
N. Ostgaard1, T. Gjesteland1, B. E. Carlson2, A. B. Collier3, S. A. Cummer4, G. Lu5,6, H. Christian7
1Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
2Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA
3School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
4Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke University, North Carolina, USA
5Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmosph, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
6Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
7University of Hunstville, Alabama, USA
16:20 HGE02.2 OPTICAL EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES
W. Xu1, S. Celestin2, V. P. Pasko1
1Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
2Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of the Environment and Space, University of Orleans, Orleans, France
16:40 HGE02.3 CHARGE MOTION AND ALTITUDE OF TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES
S. A. Cummer1, M. S. Briggs2, V. Connaughton2, S. Xiong2, G. J. Fishman3, J. R. Dwyer4
1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
2CSPAR, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
3Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., Huntsville, AL, United States
4Department of Physics, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States
17:00 HGE02.4 THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE VARIABILITY IN TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES SPECTRA
S. Celestin1, W. Xu2, V. P. Pasko2
1LPC2E, University of Orleans, Orleans, France
2Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
17:20 HGE02.5 ONE-MONTH PERIODICITY IN LIGHTNING ACTIVITY AND TROPICAL CLOUD VARIATIONS
Y. Takahashi1, M. ?. Sato1, K. Yamashita2
1Department of Cosmosciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
2Salesian Polytechnic, Machida, Japan