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Session Proposal: Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms (AGU25)

AE006
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms

Session ID#: 249270

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 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 ashes (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 elds on cosmic-ray showers, and physical models of radiation production.
Index Terms:

3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
7984 Space radiation environment [SPACE WEATHER]
Primary Convener:  Michael S Briggs, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  David Sarria, University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States and Amitabh Nag, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Global highlights from the Terrestrial High-energy Observations of Radiation (THOR) arrays (1862717)
David Miles Smith1, Ronaldo E. Rodriguez2, Heather Mentzer1, James Sanchez2, Jeffrey Michael Chaffin3, John Ortberg4, Masashi Kamogawa5, Tomoyuki Suzuki6, Jeff Lapierre7, Farhad Rachidi8, Toma Oregel-Chaumont8, Marcos Rubinstein9, Antonio Sunjerga10, Dragan Poljak10, Vicko Doric10, Xuan-Min Shao11, Daniel Jensen12, Amitabh Nag11, Austin Tyler Brower13, Dylan Goldberg13, Hamid K Rassoul13, Caitano L. da Silva14, Luis Contreras Vidal15, Adonis Leal16, Richard Sonnenfeld17, Joan Montanya18, Brandon Steven Ardila Murillo18, Jesús A López18, Sebastien J Celestin19, Yanis Hazem19, Colin Price20, Yoav Yair21, Arie Kopitman20 and Joseph R Dwyer22, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, United States, (4)US Air Force Academy, and University of California, Santa Cruz, USAF Academy, United States, (5)Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, (6)University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, (7)AEM, Research & Development, Germantown, United States, (8)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, (9)University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, (10)University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Split, Croatia, (11)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (12)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (13)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States, (14)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (15)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, United States, (16)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Lab, Socorro, NM, United States, (17)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Lab, Socorro, United States, (18)Universitat Politèc. Catalunya, Terrassa, Spain, (19)LPC2E, University of Orléans, CNRS, Orleans, France, (20)Tel Aviv University, School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel, (21)Reichman University, School of Sustainability, Herzliya, Israel, (22)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
 
Observations of High Energy Gamma Rays from Thunderstorms with Directional Detectors (1870862)
Ken Watanabe, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, United States, Tatsuo Torii, Research Inst. of Nucl. Engineering, Univ. of Fukui, Tsuruga, Japan and Quinn Verdeyen, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, United States
 
Altitude-Dependent Neutron Fluence and Effective Dose from Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes: A MonteCarlo Simulation Study (1874194)
Jeffrey Michael Chaffin, Juan J Manfredi and Vaun Clagett, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, United States
 
Towards the investigation of chemical effects of energetic electrons and photons in the atmosphere (1883473)
Christoph Koehn, Technical University of Denmark, National Space Institute, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, Hannah van Gemert, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, Morten Westermann, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, Pierre Gourbin, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark and Elloïse Fangel-Lloyd, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
 
First deployments and recent design development of the IRIS digital dosimeter (1889275)
Natalie Smith1, David Miles Smith2, Ronaldo E. Rodriguez3, Heather Mentzer2, Andrew Yegiayan4, Sophia M Urizar2,5, Michelle Pichardo2, Caitano L. da Silva6, Adonis Leal7, Luis Contreras Vidal8, Richard Sonnenfeld9, Sebastien J Celestin10, Yanis Hazem10, Masashi Kamogawa11, Tomoyuki Suzuki12 and Emil Schüler13, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Physics Department and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Santa Cruz, United States, (5)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (6)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (7)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Lab, Socorro, NM, United States, (8)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, United States, (9)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Lab, Socorro, United States, (10)LPC2E, University of Orléans, CNRS, Orleans, France, (11)Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, (12)University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, (13)UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Physics Division of Radiation Oncology, Houston, United States
 
Evidence of gamma-ray glows observed in the relativistic feedbackregime during the ALOFT 2023 flight campaign (1889803)
David Sarria1, Nikolai Ostgaard1, Martino Marisaldi1, Andrew Mezentsev1, Nikolai G. Lehtinen1, Ingrid Bjørge-Engeland1, Anders Fuglestad1, Timothy J Lang2, Mark A Stanley3 and ALOFT Team, (1)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
 
Towards a Hybrid Model to Simulate Lightning and Associated Energetic Events in Various Atmospheres (1889990)
Pierre Gourbin1, Elloïse Fangel-Lloyd2, Sasa Dujko3, Mathias Gammelmark4, Sven Karlsson4, Hannah van Gemert5, Angel Ricardo Jara Jimenez6 and Christoph Koehn2, (1)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (3)University of Belgrade, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia, (4)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Compute, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (5)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (6)Danish Meteorological Institute, København Ø, Denmark
 
An Upward Multi-Pulse TGF Observed in Kanazawa City (1891548)
Kazuhiro Nakazawa1, Manari Oguchi2, Ting Wu3, Yuuki Wada4, Keigo Okuma1, Daohong Wang3, Teruaki Enoto5, Miwa Tsurumi5, Yuki Omiya1, Jun Kataoka6, Taro Shinoda7, Takeshi Kanda6, Ryoji Iwashita6, Nanase Koshikawa6, Yuko Ikkatai8 and Gabriel Diniz9, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, (4)Osaka University, Division of Electrical, Electronic, and Infocommunications Engineering, Osaka, Japan, (5)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (6)Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, (7)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (8)Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, (9)National Institute for Space Research, São Paulo, Brazil
 
First TGF detected in a winter thunderstorm over Tel-Aviv, Israel (1891697)
Yoav Yair1, Colin Gregory Price2, David Miles Smith3, Jeff Lapierre4, Karin Pitlik5 and Menahem Korzets1, (1)Reichman University, School of Sustainability, Herzliya, Israel, (2)Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, (4)AEM, Research & Development, Germantown, United States, (5)Reichman University, School of computer science, Herzliya, Israel
 
Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash Associated With a Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash (1898321)
James Sanchez1, David Miles Smith2, Ting Wu3, Qingliu Yang4, Daohong Wang3, Masashi Kamogawa5 and Tomoyuki Suzuki6, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, (4)Gifu University, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Gifu, Japan, (5)Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, (6)University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
 
Systematic reproduction of hard radiation from thunderclouds including ALOFT’s Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes using an ODE model resembling a Lotka-Volterra predator-prey system (1913181)
Øystein Håvard Færder1, Nikolai G. Lehtinen2, David Sarria Sr2, Martino Marisaldi2, Nikolai Ostgaard2, Ingrid Bjørge-Engeland2 and Andrew Mezentsev2, (1)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway
 
Gamma, Optical and Radio Emissions from Different Electron Acceleration Mechanisms (1914289)
Nikolai G Lehtinen, Øystein Håvard Færder, David Sarria, Andrew Mezentsev, Martino Marisaldi and Nikolai Ostgaard, University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway
 
Photoelectric Effect in Air Explains Lightning Initiation and Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (1915272)
Victor P Pasko, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Sebastien J Celestin, CNRS - LPCE, Orleans Cedex 2, France, Anne Bourdon, LPP-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, Reza Janalizadeh, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Zaid Pervez, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, Jaroslav Jansky, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Defense, Brno, Czech Republic and Pierre Gourbin, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
 
The Role of High-Energy Atmospheric Physics in Lightning Initiation (1922514)
Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
 
Spectral Constraints on X-ray Emission During Lightning Stepping and Attachment at Mt. Fuji (1938657)
Ronaldo E. Rodriguez1, David Miles Smith2, Heather Mentzer2, Sophia M Urizar2, Masashi Kamogawa3, Tomoyuki Suzuki4, Ting Wu5, Daohong Wang5 and Jeff Lapierre6, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, (4)University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, (5)Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, (6)AEM, Research & Development, Germantown, United States
 
Simulation Study on Gamma-Ray Glows Induced by Cosmic-Ray Air Showers in Winter Thunderclouds (1938785)
Miwa Tsurumi1, Teruaki Enoto1, Yuko Ikkatai2, Naoki Tsuji1, Minato Otani1, Taro Shinoda3, Ting Wu4, Daohong Wang4, Shoko Miyake5, Kazuhiro Nakazawa6, Masashi Kamogawa7, Harufumi Tsuchiya8 and RIKEN, (1)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, (3)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (4)Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, (5)NIT Gifu colledge, Gifu, Japan, (6)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (7)Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, (8)Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan
 
On Peak Amplitudes of Radio Frequency Pulses Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (1946327)
Bagrat G Mailyan, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, Dakota Davis, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, United States, Amitabh Nag, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Yanan Zhu, Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States, Ryan Said, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States, Michael S Briggs, UA Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Stephen Lesage, Department of Space Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, Matt Godwin, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Oliver J Roberts, Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States and Hamid K Rassoul, Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, United States
 
Directional Measurements of On-ground TGFs using Simple Cherenkov Detectors (1951077)
Moeka Baba1, Manari Oguchi2, Mii Ando2, Kazuhiro Nakazawa1, Keigo Okuma1, Yuuki Wada3, Ting Wu4, Atsuya Tanaka2, Yuki Omiya1, Masamune Saito1, Daisuke Ito1, Yuta Nishimura1, Kosei Sakai1, Daohong Wang4, Yuko Ikkatai5 and Teruaki Enoto6, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Osaka University, Division of Electrical, Electronic, and Infocommunications Engineering, Osaka, Japan, (4)Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, (5)Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, (6)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
Constraining the Origin of TGFs using Terrestrial Electron Beams (TEBs) (1985704)
Michael S Briggs, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Stephen Lesage, Department of Space Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, Bagrat Mailyan, Florida Institute of Technology, Department Of Aerospace, Physics And Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States and David Sarria Sr, University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway
 
Very-Near-Field Observations of Natural Lightning at Mt. Fuji: Toward Integrated Studies of Chemistry and Gamma-Ray Emissions (1989877)
Masashi Kamogawa1, Tomoyuki Suzuki1, David Miles Smith2, John Ortberg3, Masaru Yasumoto4, Teruaki Enoto5, Miwa Tsurumi5, Kotaro Murata6, Hironobu Fujiwara1, Ting Wu7, Daohong Wang7, Ryuichi Wada Dr.8, Shungo Kato9, Hiroshi Okochi10, Kazuhiko Miura11, Kudo Takeshi12 and Kazuki Kawai12, (1)University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)US Air Force Academy, and University of California, Santa Cruz, USAF Academy, United States, (4)Mount Fuji Research Station, Tokyo, Japan, (5)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (6)Center for environmental science in saitama, Saitama, Japan, (7)Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, (8)Teikyo University of Science, Department of Natural and Environmental Science, Uenohara, Japan, (9)Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, (10)Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, (11)Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, (12)OTOWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Amagasaki, Japan