CEDAR email: CEDAR session: Lightning/Thunderstorm Impacts on Atmosphere/Ionosphere

[Lay, Erin Hoffmann]

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to attend and consider presenting in the upcoming CEDAR workshop, C19: Coupling from Lightning and Thunderstorms into the Upper Atmosphere and Lower Ionosphere. This is a 2-hour session on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.

This workshop focuses on the effects of lightning in the atmosphere and ionosphere and the coupling of energy due to lightning and thunderstorms into and through the upper atmosphere ionosphere. Lightning electromagnetic (EM) and electrostatic (ES) fields are responsible for producing Transient Luminous Events such as sprites, elves, and gigantic jets, and produces collisional heating of the lower ionosphere. Lightning is also responsible for Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, the most energetic photons produced on Earth, which are detected from spacecraft. Furthermore, the EM energy couples through the lower ionosphere and into the upper ionosphere and magnetosphere. Gravity waves (GWs) and acoustic waves (AWs) generated by the thunderstorm also affect the mesosphere and ionosphere and deposit large amounts of energy and momentum in the upper atmosphere. To address the outstanding questions currently under investigation in this field, this workshop will include short presentations covering all of the aspects of thunderstorm-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling, including TLEs, TGFs, GWs, AWs, effects on the lower ionosphere, and coupling into the upper ionosphere and magnetosphere. The workshop will also include discussion of the major outstanding questions in this field.

There will be several short (<10 minute) presentations on the most recent results, with time in the session for discussion. Please email the conveners below to request a presentation slot.

More details on the session can be found here:
http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2016_Workshop:Thunderstorm_Ionosphere_Coupling


Please contact conveners to request presentation slot, or with any questions:

Robert Marshall: Robert.Marshall at colorado.edu<mailto:Robert.Marshall at colorado.edu>
Erin Lay: elay at lanl.gov<mailto:elay at lanl.gov>

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