EGH2  Lightning and its Interactions with the Ionosphere II

Wednesday, January 8  13:20-17:20  Math 100

Session Chairs:  Joseph Dwyer, Steven Cummer, Ningyu Liu

13:20  EGH2-1  WHISTLER OBSERVATIONS ON DEMETER COMPARED WITH FULL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE METHOD SIMULATIONS

Andrew Compston*1, Morris Cohen2, Nikolai Lehtinen1, Umran Inan1,3, Ivan Linscott1, Ryan Said4, Michel Parrot5

1Electrial Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
3Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY
4Vaisala, Inc., Boulder, CO
5LPC2E, CNRS, Orleans, FRANCE


13:40  EGH2-2  IONOSPHERIC RESEARCH HIGH-ALTITUDE ATMOSPHERIC DISCHARGES IN MICROSATELLITE

Stanislav I. Klimov*1, Vladimir M. Gotlib1, Lev M. Zelenyi1, Victor N. Karedin1, Dmitryi I. Vavilov1, Maksim S. Dolgonosov1, Gali K. Garipov2, Sergei I. Svertilov2, Ivan V. Yashin2, Valery E. Korepanov3, Csaba Ferenz4

1Dept. of Space plasma physics, Space Research Institute of the RAS, Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
2Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
3Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research NANU-GSAU, Lviv, UKRAINE
4Space Research Group, Etvos University, Budapest, HUNGARY


14:00  EGH2-3  GBM TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES (TGFS) AND LIGHTNING

Michael S. Briggs*

CSPAR, University of Alabama in Hunstville, Huntsville


14:20  EGH2-4  A FOUR-YEAR FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE SURVEY OF TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES

J. Eric Grove*1, Alexandre Chekhtman2, Meagan M. Schaal3

1Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
2George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
3National Research Council, resident at Naval Research Lab, Washington DC


14:40  EGH2-5  LATEST TGF RESULTS FROM ADELE AND RHESSI

Nicole A. Kelley*1, David M. Smith1, Gregory S. Bowers1, Paul Puzbee1, Forest Martinez-McKinney1, Alexander Infanger1, Joseph R. Dwyer2, Steven A. Cummer3, Gaopeng Lu4, Robert H. Holzworth5, Michael L. Hutchins5, Michael E. Splitt6, Steven M. Lazarus6, Eric Cramer2, Shahab Arabshahi2, Thomas Gjesteland7, Nikolai Ostgaard7, Hamid Rassoul2

1Physics Department and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
3Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC
4Laboratory for Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, CHINA
5Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
6Marine and Environental Systems, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
7Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, NORWAY


15:20  EGH2-6  INITIAL BREAKDOWN PULSES IN INTRACLOUD LIGHTNING FLASHES AND THEIR RELATION TO TERRESTRIAL GAMMA RAY FLASHES

Thomas Marshall*1, Maribeth Stolzenburg1, Sumedhe Karunarathne1, Steve Cummer2, Gaopeng Lu2, Hans-Deiter Betz3, Michael Briggs4,5, Valerie Connaughton4,5, Shaolin Xiong4

1University of Mississippi, University, MS
2Duke University, Durham, NC
3University of Munich, Munich, GERMANY
4CSPAR, Huntsville, AL
5University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL


15:40  EGH2-7  A RADIO-INFORMED SEARCH FOR WEAK TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES WITH FERMI GBM

Lindsay E. McTague*1, Steven A. Cummer1, Michael S. Briggs2, Valerie Connaughton2, Shaolin Xiong2, Gerald J. Fishman3

1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC
2CSPAR, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
3Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Huntsville, AL


16:00  EGH2-8  A FULLY 3-D, TIME-DEPENDENT AND SELF-CONSISTENT MODEL OF RELATIVISTIC FEEDBACK DISCHARGES

Joseph R. Dwyer*, Ningyu Liu, Hamid Rassoul

Florida Tech, Melbourne


16:20  EGH2-9  X-RAY EMISSIONS PRODUCED BY STEPPING LIGHTNING LEADERS

Wei Xu*1, Sebastien Celestin2, Victor P. Pasko1

1Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2University of Orleans, Orleans, FRANCE


16:40  EGH2-10  OPTICAL EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES

Wei Xu*1, Sebastien Celestin2, Victor P. Pasko1

1Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2University of Orleans, Orleans, FRANCE


17:00  EGH2-11  TIME-DOMAIN SOLUTION TO MAXWELLS EQUATIONS FOR A LIGHTNING DART LEADER AND SUBSEQUENT RETURN STROKE

Edward M. Thiemann*, Albin J. Gasiewski

Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO