GHE1  Lightning and its Interaction with the Ionosphere I

Wednesday, January 9  08:20-11:40  Room 105

Session Chairs:  Sebastien Celestin, Ningyu Liu, Joseph Dwyer

08:20  GHE1-1  RECENT ROCKET-AND-WIRE TRIGGERED LIGHTNING EXPERIMENTS AT CAMP BLANDING: DE/DT AND X-RAY TIME-OF-ARRIVAL MEASUREMENTS OF THE PROPAGATION MECHANISMS AND GROUND ATTACHMENT PROCESSES OF DART-STEPPED LEADERS

Jonathan D. Hill*1, Martin A. Uman1, Douglas M. Jordan1, Terry Ngin1, William Gamerota1, John T. Pilkey1, Joseph R. Dwyer2, Hamid Rassoul2

1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL


08:40  GHE1-2  LIGHTNING ENERGETICS

Hugh J. Christian*, Phillip Bitzer, Daniel Walker, Jeffrey Burchfield

ESSC, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL


09:00  GHE1-3  PRODUCTION OF VERY HIGH POTENTIAL IN INTRA-CLOUD LIGHTNING IN CONNECTION WITH TERRESTRIAL GAMMA RAY FLASHES

Sotirios A. Mallios*, Sebastien Celestin, Victor P. Pasko

Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA


09:20  GHE1-4  LONG RECOVERY OF THE LOWER IONOSPHERE FROM THE QUASI-ELECTROSTATIC EFFECTS OF CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING

Ningyu Liu*

Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, FL


09:40  GHE1-5  MINIMUM CHARGE MOMENT CHANGE IN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING DISCHARGES PRODUCING SPRITES

Jianqi Qin*, Sebastien Celestin, Victor P. Pasko

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA


10:20  GHE1-6  LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION FROM SPRITE STREAMERS

Jianqi Qin*, Sebastien Celestin, Victor P. Pasko

Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA


10:40  GHE1-7  SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS OF EARLY/FAST VLF SCATTERING EVENTS

Daniel A. Kotovsky*, Robert C. Moore

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL


11:00  GHE1-8  SPREAD-SPECTRUM VLF REMOTE SENSING OF LEP EVENTS

Michael Mitchell*, Robert C. Moore

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL


11:20  GHE1-9  THE EFFECT OF LIGHTNING RETURN STROKE SPEED ON EARTH-IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE EXCITATION

Neal A. Dupree, Robert C. Moore*

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL