AE005
Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms II eLightning

Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 16:00-17:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Conveners:  Michael S Briggs, CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, David Miles Smith, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Amitabh Nag, Florida tech, Melbourne, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
Chairs:  David Miles Smith, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Amitabh Nag, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States
16:00
Introductory Remarks
16:01
The relationship between TETRA-II TGFs and lightning peak current (731118)
Samer Alnussirat1, Michael L Cherry2, Deborah Brewster2, Caleb L Derrickson2 and Donald J Pleshinger3, (1)Louisiana State University, Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Physics & Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)University of South Alabama, Center for Lung Biology & Dept. of Pharmacology, Mobile, AL, United States
16:04
Algebraic electron beam operations for reconstructing runaway electron energy spectrum (741584)
John Pantuso, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Physics Department & Langmuir Lab, Socorro, NM, United States and Caitano L. da Silva, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
16:07
Analysis of the variability of natural gamma radiation during intense atmospheric electric field events. (717045)
Rafael De Oliveira, Presbyterian Mackenzie University, São Paulo, Brazil, Jose Carlos Tacza Anaya, Presbyterian Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland and Jean-Pierre Raulin, Presbyterian Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
16:10
ASIM - Fermi - AGILE simultaneous observation of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (720786)
Martino Marisaldi1, Andrew Mezentsev1, David Sarria Sr1, Anders Lindanger1, Nikolai Ostgaard2, Torsten Neubert3, Reglero Victor4, Pavlo Kochkin1, Nikolai G. Lehtinen1, Carolina Maiorana1, Chris Alexander Alexander Skeie1, Ingrid Bjørge-Engeland1, Kjetil Ullaland1, Georgi Genov1, Freddy Christiansen3, Hugh J Christian Jr5, Samer Alnussirat6, Michael S Briggs7, Alessandro Ursi8 and Marco Tavani9, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)Birkeland Centre for Space Sciece, Bergen, Norway, (3)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (4)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)Louisiana State University, Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (7)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy, (9)INAF IAPS, Roma, Italy
16:13
Characteristics of TETRA-II TGFs and their Associated Lightning Activity (705649)
Michael L Cherry1, Samer Alnussirat1, Deborah Brewster1, Caleb L Derrickson1, Donald J Pleshinger2, Deirdre Smith3 and Jill C. Trepanier3, (1)Louisiana State University, Physics & Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)University of South Alabama, Center for Lung Biology & Dept. of Pharmacology, Mobile, AL, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Geography & Anthropology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
16:16
Generation possibility of gamma-ray glows induced by photo-nuclear reactions (692275)
Gabriel Sousa Diniz1, Yuuki Wada1, Ivan Soares Ferreira2 and Teruaki Enoto1,3, (1)RIKEN, Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Japan, (2)UNB University of Brasilia, Instituto de Física, Asa Norte, Brazil, (3)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
16:19
Glowbug, a Gamma-Ray Telescope for Bursts and Other Transients (including TGFs!) (670168)
J Eric Grove1, C. C. Cheung1, M. Kerr1, Lee J. Mitchell2, Bernard F. Phlips2, Richard S. Woolf2, Colleen Wilson-Hodge3, Daniel Kocevski4 and Michael S Briggs5, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (5)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
16:22
Observation of 'neutron bursts' from Cosmic Ray Showers and relevance to ground based Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) observational campaigns. (733853)
Gregory S Bowers1, Xuan-Min Shao2, William Blaine3, Brenda Dingus1, David Miles Smith4, Jeffrey Michael Chaffin5, John Ortberg5, Hamid K Rassoul6, Cheng Ho1, Lukas Nellen7 and Nissim Fraija8, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, FL, United States, (7)Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, Mexico, (8)Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Instituto de Astronoma, Mexico City, Mexico
16:25
Systematic Aircraft-Based Measurement of Thunderstorm Related Gamma-Ray and X-Ray Emissions (676653)
Istvan Kereszy1, Vladimir A Rakov2, Teruaki Enoto3 and Yuuki Wada3, (1)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)RIKEN, Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Japan
16:28
Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes - POLAR's Observation (718149)
Yi Zhao1, Shaolin Xiong2, Jianchao Sun2 and Heng Yu3, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)IHEP Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)BNU Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
16:31
TGF and elves produced by the same thunderstorm system (680604)
Nikolai Ostgaard1, Steven A Cummer2, Andrew Mezentsev1, Torsten Neubert3, Reglero Victor4, Martino Marisaldi5, Pavlo Kochkin1, David Sarria Sr1, Kjetil Ullaland1, Shiming Yang1, Georgi Genov1, Olivier Chanrion3, Freddy Christiansen3, Yunjiao Pu6, Alejandro Luque7 and Joseph R Dwyer8, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (3)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (4)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (5)National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy, (6)Duke University, Durham, United States, (7)Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA - CSIC), Granada, Spain, (8)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
16:34
TGF location in the FOV of ASIM from MXGS/MMIA imaging and WWLLN events and zenith angle variations in TGF flux, spectral hardness and LE-HE pulse delay (760414)
Paul Henry Connell1, Reglero Victor2, Javier Navarro-Gonzalez1 and Christopher J Eyles3, (1)University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain, (2)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (3)University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
16:37
Thundercloud Project: Citizen Science Observation Campaign of High-Energy Atmospheric Phenomena from Lightning and Thunderstorms in Japan (678789)
Teruaki Enoto1, Yuuki Wada1, Takayuki Yuasa2, Yuko Ikkatai3, Shohei Hisadomi4, Kazuhiro Nakazawa4, Yuna Tsuji4, Harufumi Tsuchiya5, Takeshi Morimoto6, Yoshitaka Nakamura7, Masashi Kamogawa8, Gabriel Sousa Diniz1, Yousuke Sato9 and the GROWTH collaboration , (1)RIKEN, Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Japan, (2)RIKEN, Saitama, Japan, (3)The University.of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (4)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (5)Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan, (6)Kindai University, Osaka, Japan, (7)Kobe City College of Tech., Kobe, Japan, (8)Tokyo Gakugei Univ, Tokyo, Japan, (9)RIKEN, Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan
16:40
Observations of energetic radiation due to thunderstorms at an altitude of 4300 m (663141)
Harufumi Tsuchiya1, Kinya Hibino2, Kazumasa Kawata3 and Munehiro Ohnishi3, (1)Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan, (2)Kanagawa University, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama, Japan, (3)Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
16:43
Discussion