AE001
Advances in Instrumentation and Signal and Data Processing Methods for Atmospheric Electricity Applications
Session ID#: 80965
Session Description:
Observations of lightning have always had, and continue to have a strong influence on our understanding of atmospheric electricity. The instruments used to make the observations have been varied, including optical cameras, radio receivers, microphones, particle detectors, rockets, lasers, and more. As technology has progressed, the volumes of data these instruments produce can be breathtaking, requiring processing techniques to reduce the data into a form useful for scientific endeavors. Improved signal processing techniques are also used to extract more and more information from data. This session invites oral, poster, or eLightning abstracts focusing on recent developments of instrumentation used to observe lightning and transient luminous events (TLEs) as well as the signal and data processing techniques that accompany them. Topics include, but are not limited to, atmospheric electricity instrumentation of all types; data processing methods to locate, map, or image lightning; signal enhancement techniques, wave propagation models, etc.
Index Terms:
0674 Signal processing and adaptive antennas [ELECTROMAGNETICS]
0694 Instruments and techniques [ELECTROMAGNETICS]
3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Jeff L Lapierre, Earth Networks Inc., Research and Development, Germantown, MD, United States
Convener: Michael Stock, Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States
Primary Liaison: Jeff L Lapierre, Earth Networks Inc., Research and Development, Germantown, MD, United States
Evaluation of the performance characteristics of the FY-4A Lightning Mapping Imager (604493)
Dongjie Cao1, Xiushu Qie2, Feng Lu1, Xiaohu Zhang1, Zhiqing Zhang1 and Dongfang Wang2, (1)NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center,China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Comparing Lightning Stroke Energy determined by RF Versus Optical Methods (606216)
Robert H Holzworth II, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Michael McCarthy, Earth & Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and James B Brundell, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Development of an Atmospheric Electrical Field Monitoring Network for Mountainous Tropical Regions and Cross-platform Lighting Activity Assessment (627598)
Alvaro Alejandro Villa1, Javier G Herrera Murcia2, Manuel Francisco Patiño Sr3, Jhonny Alberth Herrera4, Silvana María López1, Santiago cardona Gomez5, Juan Manuel Valencia6 and Carlos David Hoyos Ortiz7, (1)Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Medellín, Colombia, (2)Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Departamento de Energía Eléctrica y Automática, Medellín, Colombia, (3)Universidad EAFIT, Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, (4)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Universidad Nacional de Colombia,Sede Medellin, Medellin, Colombia, (6)Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Medellin, Colombia, (7)Sistema de Alerta Temprana del Valle de Aburra (SIATA);Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente/Geoscience and Environment Department, Medellín, Colombia
Revisiting the Thunder-Day (561523)
Michael Stock, Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States and Jeff Lapierre, Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States
Three dimensional mapping on lightning discharge processes using two VHF/UHF broadband interferometers (567720)
Zhuling Sun1, Xiushu Qie1, Caixia Wang2, Mingyuan Liu1 and Rubin Jiang1, (1)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)College of Science, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China
Signatures of Remote Intense Lightning on a Quasi-static Displacement Current Sensor (580410)
Andrea Pizzuti, University of Bath, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom; Biral Ltd., Portishead, United Kingdom, Serge Soula, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, Janusz Mlynarczyk, AGH University, Krakow, Poland, Alec Bennett, Biral Ltd, Bristol, United Kingdom, Martin Fullekrug, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom and Stephane Pedeboy, Météorage, Pau, France
Flash Type Classification of GLM Flashes (502941)
Jacquelyn Ringhausen, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Phillip M Bitzer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Location algorithms for Huntsville Alabama Marx Meter Array 2 (520999)
Yanan Zhu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Research Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Phillip M Bitzer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and Michael Stock, Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States
Application of Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) in lightning low frequency electric field signal analysis (507359)
Xiangpeng Fan1, Yijun Zhang2, Paul R Krehbiel3, Yang Zhang1, Dong Zheng1, Hengyi Liu1, Liangtao Xu1 and Weitao Lu1, (1)Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW), Beijing, China, (2)Fudan University, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Shanghai, China, (3)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
Broadband RF Interferometric Mapping and Polarization (BIMAP) Observations Reveals new Physics Insights into Lightning Discharge Processes (Invited) (516802)
Xuan-Min Shao1, Gregory S Bowers2, Cheng Ho2 and Brenda Dingus2, (1)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Modeling Initial Breakdown Pulses of Intracloud Lightning Flashes (509096)
Nilmini Dilrukshi Karunarathne, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Thomas C Marshall, Univ Mississippi, University, MS, United States and Maribeth Stolzenburg, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States
