AE002
Energetic Radiation From Lightning and Thunderstorms

Session ID#: 157731

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 flashes (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 fields 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:  Brant Carlson, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, United States, Amitabh Nag, Florida Institute of Technology, APSS, Melbourne, FL, United States and David Miles Smith, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Findings from Six Flights of the High Energy Lightning Emission Network (HELEN): A Balloon-Borne Constellation of Detectors to Investigate Radiation Produced in Thunderstorms (1196797)
Christopher Helmerich, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Physics, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
The relationship between Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash and Narrow Bipolar Event (1197227)
Hongbo Zhang, IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Xiushu Qie, Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, Gaopeng Lu, Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Fanchao Lyu, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, Shaolin Xiong, IHEP Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Yunjiao Pu, Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, Steve Cummer, Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Durham, NC, United States, Mohd Riduan Ahmad, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia and Michael S Briggs, CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
 
Suspected Stepped-Leader X-ray Bursts Observed Preceding a Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash on Mt. Fuji, Japan (1185390)
John Ortberg1, David Miles Smith1, Jeffrey Michael Chaffin1, Masashi Kamogawa2, Tomoyuki Suzuki3, Daohong Wang4, Ting Wu5, Namiko Sakurai6 and Jeff Lapierre7, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Tokyo Gakugei Univ, Tokyo, Japan, (3)JASDF, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, (5)Osaka University, Suita, Japan, (6)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Storm, Flood and Landslide Research Division, Tsukuba, Japan, (7)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States
 
Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Associated with Positive Leaders (1188497)
Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
 
Preliminary Results of the Summer 2022 Langmuir Energetic Radiation Campaign (1190394)
James Sanchez1, Luis Contreras Vidal1, Caitano da Silva1, Richard Sonnenfeld1, Graydon D Aulich1, Kenneth Eack2 and Harald E Edens2, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-2, Los Alamos, United States
 
Anisotropy Distribution of TGFs Couples: Central America Region is the Key. (1170726)
Javier Navarro-Gonzalez1, Paul Henry Connell1, Christopher J Eyles2, Reglero Victor3, Jesús A López4, Joan Montanya5, Martino Marisaldi6, Andrew Mezentsev7, Anders Lindanger7, David Sarria Sr7, Nikolai Ostgaard8, Freddie Christiansen9, Olivier Chanrion10 and Torsten Neubert10, (1)University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain, (2)University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, (3)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (4)Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Electrical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, (5)Universitat Politèc. Catalunya, Terrassa, Spain, (6)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bologna, Italy, (7)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (8)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (9)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (10)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
 
Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning of Energetic Lightning Radio Pulses for Ground Detection of TGFs (1122740)
Yunjiao Pu1, Steven A Cummer1, Fanchao Lyu2, Yu Zheng2, Michael S Briggs3, Stephen Lesage4, Bagrat G Mailyan5 and Oliver Roberts6, (1)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, (3)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (4)Department of Space Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (5)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, United States, (6)Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, United States
 
A TGF from the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai Volcanic Eruption (1133059)
Michael S Briggs1,2, Stephen Lesage2, Christopher J Schultz3, Bagrat Mailyan4 and Robert H Holzworth II5, (1)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (2)Department of Space Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Florida Institute of Technology, Department Of Aerospace, Physics And Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States, (5)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States
 
Constraining the Origin Altitude of the First Satellite-Detected Reverse-Beam Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash Produced by a Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Leader (1135176)
Jeffrey Michael Chaffin1, Yunjiao Pu2, Steven A Cummer3, David Miles Smith1 and Michael E Splitt4, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, United States, (3)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (4)Florida Inst. of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States
 
New Observations of Intermediate-Duration Downward Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (1137586)
John Belz1, Rasha Abbasi1, Ny Kieu2, Paul R Krehbiel3, Ryan LeVon1, Alex Petrizze4, Jackson Remington5, William Rison6, Marcelo M Saba7, Kieran Smout1, Mark A Stanley8 and The Telescope Array Scientific Collaboration, (1)University of Utah, Physics Department, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)Loyola University Chicago, Physics, Chicago, IL, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Oak Ridge, United States, (6)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (7)INPE National Institute for Space Research, S. Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, (8)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
 
Discerning TGF and Leader Current Pulse in ASIM Observation (1141298)
Andrew Mezentsev1, Nikolai Ostgaard1, Martino Marisaldi1, Torsten Neubert2, Olivier Chanrion2 and Reglero Victor3, (1)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (3)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain
 
The 3rd Fermi-GBM Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash Catalog (1149566)
Oliver Roberts1, Stephen Lesage2, Bagrat G Mailyan3, Michael S Briggs2,4 and Robert H Holzworth II5, (1)Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, Science and Technology Institute, Huntsville, United States, (2)Department of Space Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (3)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, United States, (4)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (5)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States
 
High-Speed Lightning Spectra Observation At The Telescope Array Detector (1099086)
Ny Kieu1, Rasha Abbasi2, John Belz3, Marcelo M Saba4, Diego Rhamon da Silva5, Jackson Remington6, Dan Rodeheffer7, William Rison7, Mark A Stanley8, Ryan LeVon2, Kaleigh O'Brien9, Nour Husseini10, Joeseph Mazich9, Kieran Smout2, Gradce Bratrud9 and Alex Petrizze11, (1)Loyola University Chicago, Physics, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)University of Utah, Physics Department, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Physics, SLC, UT, United States, (4)INPE National Institute for Space Research, S. Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, (5)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (6)University of Utah, Physics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (7)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (8)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (9)Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, United States, (10)IMSA, Chicago, United States, (11)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
 
An Investigation of Thunderstorms that Produce Mountain-Top Energetic Pulses (1066982)
Reyann Kathleen Larkey1, John Glen Sample1, David Miles Smith2, Steve Cummer3 and Yunjiao Pu4, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Durham, NC, United States, (4)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Observationally Weak TGFs in the Fermi-GBM Data (1068368)
Stephen Lesage1, Michael S Briggs1,2, Oliver Roberts3, Bagrat Mailyan4 and Robert H Holzworth II5, (1)Department of Space Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (2)CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, United States, (4)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States, (5)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States
 
Library of simulated gamma-ray glows and application to previous airborne observations. (1071129)
David Sarria1, Nikolai Ostgaard1, Martino Marisaldi2, Nikolai G Lehtinen1 and Andrew Mezentsev1, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
 
Radiation Risk Assessment Associated with TGFs for Aircraft Passengers: Estimations of the Probability for a Commercial Flight to Be Hit by a TGF (1071231)
Melody Pallu, LPC2E, University of Orleans, CNRS, Orleans, France, Sebastien J Celestin, CNRS - LPCE, Orleans Cedex 2, France, Francois Trompier, IRSN, Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France and Michel Klerlein, Occupational Health Services, Air France, France, Roissy CDG, France
 
Self-Consistent Effects on the Propagation of Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanches (1071317)
Pierre Gourbin, University of Orleans, Orleans, Centre-Val de Loire, FRANCE and Sebastien J Celestin, CNRS - LPCE, Orleans Cedex 2, France
 
Observation of two downward terrestrial gamma-ray flashes with very-high-frequency waveform recordings (1078121)
Yuuki Wada, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Takeshi Morimoto, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Kobe City College of Tech., Kobe, Japan, Teruaki Enoto, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Hiroshi Kikuchi, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Aeronautical Technology Directorate, Tokyo, Japan and Tomoo Ushio, Osaka University, Department of Engineering, Suita, Japan
 
Double TGFs and associated optical pulses from lightning (1085205)
Nikolai Ostgaard1, Andrew Mezentsev1, Martino Marisaldi2, David Sarria3, Kjetil Ullaland1, Shiming Yang1, Torsten Neubert4, Olivier Chanrion4, Freddy Christiansen4, Steve Cummer5, Gaopeng Lu6, Reglero Victor7 and Alejandro Luque8, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bologna, Italy, (3)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (4)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (5)Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Durham, NC, United States, (6)Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (7)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, (8)Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA)-CSIC, Granada, Spain
 
The Optical Counterpart of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Observations at the Telescope Array Detector. (1085692)
Rasha Abbasi1, John Belz2, Marcelo M Saba3, Paul R Krehbiel4, Jackson Remington5, Ny Kieu6, Diego Rhamon da Silva7, William Rison8, Dan Rodeheffer8, Mark A Stanley9, Joeseph Mazich1, Ryan LeVon10, Kieran Smout10, Kaleigh O'Brien1, Gradce Bratrud1, Nour Husseini11 and Alex Petrizze12, (1)Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, United States, (2)University of Utah, Physics, SLC, UT, United States, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, S. Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, (4)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)University of Utah, Physics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)Loyola University Chicago, Physics, Chicago, IL, United States, (7)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (8)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (9)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (10)University of Utah, Physics Department, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (11)IMSA, Chicago, United States, (12)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
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