AE006
High-Resolution Data Analysis and Modeling in Atmospheric and Space Electricity I eLightning

Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 17:30-18:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Convener:  Pavlo Kochkin, University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Chairs:  Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Pavlo Kochkin, University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
OSPA Liaison:  Sonja A Behnke, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
17:30
Introductory Remarks
17:31
Streamer discharges in the atmosphere of Primordial Earth (663702)
Christoph Koehn1, Nikolaos Segkos2, Olivier Chanrion1, Martin B Enghoff2 and Sasa Dujko3, (1)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (3)University of Belgrade, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
17:34
Collective acceleration of streamer discharge systems (753671)
Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
17:37
Impact of air flow on streamer discharges from a 3D fluid model (690296)
Mojtaba Niknezhad1, Olivier Chanrion1, Christoph Koehn1, Joachim Holbøll2 and Torsten Neubert1, (1)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Elektro, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
17:40
Modelling Streamers as Quasi-Steady Structures Characterized by Macroscopic Parameters (735816)
Colin Armstrong Pavan, Manuel Martinez-Sanchez, Ngoc Cuong Nguyen and Carmen Guerra-Garcia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
17:43
Corona Discharge in Wind: Revisited (728605)
Carmen Guerra-Garcia1, Ngoc Cuong Nguyen1, Theodore Mouratidis2 and Manuel Martinez-Sanchez1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
17:46
Residual corona streamer structure versus space stem formation: distinct origins of the intermittent propagation in positive and negative leaders (768667)
Rubin Jiang1, Xiushu Qie2, Zongxiang Li3, Hongbo Zhang4, Xiao Li Jr5, Shanfeng Yuan6, Mingyuan Liu1, Zhuling Sun1, Abhay Srivastava6, Minzhi Liu7, Zilong Ma7 and Guanlin Lv8, (1)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, (3)Chengdu University of Information Technology, College of Electronic Engineering, Chengdu, China, (4)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, (5)Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, (6)Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (7)Nanjing University of information Science & Technology, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration/ Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing, China, (8)Chengdu University of Information Technology, College of Electronic Engineering, Chengdu, Chengdu, China
17:49
High-speed video observations of a +CG flash caused by a sequence of bidirectional leaders forming a ground-reaching branch of pre-existing in-cloud channel (687043)
Weitao Lyu1, Bin Wu1, Qi Qi1, Ying Ma1, Chen Lyuwen2, Ruijiao Jiang1, Yanan Zhu3 and Vladimir A Rakov4, (1)State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, Guangzhou, China, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (4)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States
17:52
High-speed video observations of space stems and leaders in natural negative cloud-to-ground lightning (753400)
Hamza Khounate, Amitabh Nag, Mathieu Plaisir, Abdullah Y. Imam, Christopher Biagi and Hamid K Rassoul, Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States
17:55
Collision of downward negative leader branches: Why does this happen? (682534)
Ziqin Ding1, Vladimir A Rakov1, Yanan Zhu2 and Manh D Tran3, (1)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (3)Rhombus Power Inc., Moffett Field, CA, United States
17:58
Interferometric Imagining of Lightning Initiation on LOFAR Data (705513)
Christopher Francis Francis Sterpka1, Joseph Dwyer1, Ningyu Liu1, Brian Hare2 and Olaf Scholten2, (1)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
18:01
The Nature of Needle Activity as seen in VHF (724830)
Brian Hare1, Olaf Scholten1, Joseph R Dwyer2, Christopher Francis Francis Sterpka3 and LOFAR Cosmic Ray Key Science Project, (1)University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, (2)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
18:04
Initial Results from a 2nd-generation Broadband VHF Interferometer Imaging System (773512)
Mark A Stanley1, Paul R Krehbiel2, Xiangpeng Fan3, Harald E Edens4, Dan Rodeheffer5 and William Rison5, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW), Beijing, China, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Department of Physics and Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
18:07
Broadband Positive Breakdown Characteristics of Natural Positive Lightning Leaders (744003)
Yunjiao Pu and Steven A Cummer, Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, NC, United States
18:10
Lightning Initiation from Fast Negative Breakdown is Led by Positive Polarity Dominated Streamers (679190)
Anjing Huang, Steven A Cummer and Yunjiao Pu, Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, NC, United States
18:13
The International Space Station Lightning Imaging Sensor: Performance, Applications, and Cross-Platform Science (683844)
Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
18:16
Discussion