AE001
Advances in Instrumentation and Signal and Data Processing Methods for Atmospheric Electricity Applications
Session ID#: 159028
Session Description:
Observations of lightning have always had, and continue to have, a strong influence on our physical 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 now produce can be quite breathtaking, requiring processing techniques to reduce the data into a form useful for scientific endeavors. Improved signal processing techniques have also been used to extract more and more information from the data. This session focuses 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 measurement instrumentation of all types; data processing methods to locate, map, or image lightning and TLEs; signal enhancement techniques; and wave propagation models.
Index Terms:
3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Elizabeth DiGangi, Earth Networks Inc., Research and Development, Germantown, MD, United States
Convener: Jeff L Lapierre, Earth Networks Inc., Research and Development, Germantown, MD, United States
Developing & Deploying Tools to Better Observe Lightning in the Washington D.C. Area & Beyond (1172770)
Daile Zhang1, Mason Quick2, Alexander Coles Friedman1, Domenic Brooks1, Terrence Pierce1, Guangyang Fang1, Joseph Patton1, Jeff Lapierre3, Karl Stock3, Vanna Chmielewski4,5 and Michael Stock4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (3)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, (5)NOAA / OAR / National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, United States
Lightning VHF Radiation Mapping Method for an Irregular Short-baseline Array (1156504)
Shanfeng Yuan1, Xiushu Qie2, Zhuling Sun2, Fengquan Li2 and Rubin Jiang1, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Narrow Bipolar Events Observed by the ENTLN on the Global Scale (1159805)
Yanan Zhu1, Jeff Lapierre1, Elizabeth DiGangi2 and Michael Stock3, (1)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States, (2)Earth Networks Inc., Research and Development, Germantown, MD, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States
Movin’ on the ISS: Status of the post-relocation Lightning Imaging Sensor and future plans (1113056)
Katrina Virts1, Michele Garrett2, William John Koshak3, Will Ellett1, Robert Plunkett4, Shannon Flynn1, Douglas M Mach5, Richard J Blakeslee6, Leigh Sinclair7, Dennis Edward Buechler1, Michael F Stewart1, Philip Alldredge2 and Timothy J Lang8, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)United States Space Force, Houston, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, Global Hydrology and Climate Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)NASA, Madison, AL, United States, (7)DEVELOP, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States
Navigation of Geostationary Lightning Mapper Data (1118950)
Phillip M Bitzer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and Jeffrey C Burchfield, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Modeling Methods for 3D Lightning Mapping from Space (1123153)
Jackson Remington1, Timothy J Lang2, Sonja A Behnke3, Harald E Edens4,5, Patrick N Gatlin1, Mason Quick2 and Sarah Stough2, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Socorro, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-2, Los Alamos, United States
Lightning Interferometry with the Sevilleta Long Wavelength Array (1145840)
Michael Stock1,2, Julia Tilles3, Greg B Taylor4 and Jayce Dowell4, (1)Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Norman, United States, (2)National Severe Storms Lab Norman, Norman, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (4)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Physics and Astronomy, Albuquerque, NM, United States
An evaluation of GLM optical pulse detection using ASIM MMIA (1146151)
Joan Montanya, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Electrical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, Jesús A. López Trujillo, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Terrassa, Spain, Jaime Francisco Morán-Domínguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Terrassa, Spain, Oscar A Van Der Velde, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech, Terrassa, Spain, Javier Navarro-Gonzalez, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain, Reglero Victor, University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory, Burjassot, Spain, Torsten Neubert, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark and Nikolai Ostgaard, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Analysis of Narrow Bipolar Events Using Mode Decomposition Methods (1097922)
Seda Senay, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Electrical Engineering, Socorro, NM, United States, Paul R Krehbiel, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, Caitano da Silva, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, United States, Harald E Edens, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-2, Los Alamos, United States, David Bennecke, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States and Mark A Stanley, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
Assessing the feasibility of a spaceborne 3D lightning observing concept (1107721)
Patrick N Gatlin1, Sonja A Behnke2, Sarah M. Stough3, Randall Hopkins4, Timothy J Lang4, Harald E Edens5, Jackson Remington4,6, Mason Quick4 and Phillip M Bitzer7, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (5)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Socorro, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Oak Ridge, United States, (7)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Dual Interferometer Lightning 3D Mapping Technique with Systematic Error Optimization (1082191)
Xiangpeng Fan1, Mark A Stanley2 and Paul R Krehbiel2, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
Initial Results from the Radio Frequency Sensor (RFS) (1062375)
Erin H Lay1, Michael J Peterson1, Amitabh Nag1, Sonja A Behnke2 and Jonathan Cox3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space and Remote Sensing (ISR-2), Los Alamos, United States
Sensors for Low Frequency Lightning Instrumentation (1056867)
Rene Arechiga1, Shrishti Yadav2 and Scott W Teare1, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Electrical Engineering, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Physics, Socorro, United States
