GHE2  Lightning and its Interaction with the Ionosphere II

Wednesday, January 9  13:20-16:20  Room 200

Session Chairs:  Joseph Dwyer, Ningyu Liu, Sebastien Celestin

13:20  GHE2-1  A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF Q-BURST OBSERVATIONS AT ARRIVAL HEIGHTS, ANTARCTICA

Sydney N. Greene*, Robert C. Moore

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


13:40  GHE2-2  EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS: TIME-DEPENDENT EARTH SURFACE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING MODEL

Victor P. Pasko*

Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania


14:00  GHE2-3  ANALYSIS OF NEW RHESSI TGFS

Thomas Gjesteland*1, Nikolai Ostgaard1, Ragnhild S. Hansen1, Brant E. Carlson2, Andrew Collier3,4

1Dept. of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
2Physics department, Carthage College, WI
3SANSA Space Science, Hermanus, South Africa
4Space Physics Research Institute,, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa


14:20  GHE2-4  DETAILED RADIO OBSERVATIONS OF LIGHTNING PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH TERRESTRIAL GAMMA RAY FLASHES

Steven Cummer*1, Gaopeng Lu1, Michael Briggs2, Valerie Connaughton2, Shaolin Xiong2, Gerald Fishman3, Joseph Dwyer4

1Duke University, Durham, NC
2University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
3NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
4Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL


14:40  GHE2-5  RELATIVISTIC FEEDBACK DISCHARGE THEORY

Joseph R. Dwyer*, Ningyu Liu

Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Tech, Melbourne


15:20  GHE2-6  A NUMERICAL STUDY ON TGFS AND RELATIVISTIC FEEDBACK DISCHARGES

Ningyu Liu*, Joseph R. Dwyer

Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, FL


15:40  GHE2-7  LONG DURATION GAMMA-RAY GLOWS ABOVE THUNDERCLOUDS

Nicole A. Kelley*1, David M. Smith1, Joseph R. Dwyer2, Bryna J. Hazelton3, Brian W. Grefenstette4, Alex W. Lowell5, Michael E. Splitt6, Steve M. Lazarus6, Hamid K. Rassoul2

1Physics/SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
3Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
4Space Radiation Lab, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
5Space Sciences Lab, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
6Marine and Environmental Systems, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL


16:00  GHE2-8  MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF NEUTRON GENERATION BY LIGHTNING LEADERS

Wei Xu*, Sebastien Celestin, Victor P. Pasko

Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA