CEDAR email: Lightning Physics Session at AGU26

[Caitano da Silva]

Dear Colleagues,

Abstract submission is now open for AGU26. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the Lightning Physics session. Details below.

Title: AE005 - Physics of Streamers, Leaders, and the Lightning Discharge

Description: Lightning is comprised of a variety of processes over a multitude of scales including the initial breakdown stage, fast streamer-based breakdown, leader steps, streamer zones, space stems and space leaders, needles, recoil leaders, return strokes, and M components. Lightning channels promote energy exchange between plasma and surrounding environment generating a plethora of impacts in the atmosphere and to society. In recent years, substantial instrumentation advances have been made in optical, radio-frequency, and energetic radiation imaging of the lightning channels' initiation, propagation, and attachment to ground structures, as well as the return stroke and the subsequent processes taking place inside its decaying channels. Additionally, during the next decade the field should see an explosive growth in the development and use of computational models of lightning and its multi-spectral emissions. We seek abstracts on natural and laboratory observations, modeling, and theoretical efforts dedicated to advancing our community's understanding of lightning physics.

Location: AGU26 will take place this coming December 7-11 in San Francisco, CA, USA

Submit an abstract to this session: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/prelim.cgi/Session/281098 <https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/prelim.cgi/Session/281098>

Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, August 05, 2026, at 23:59 Eastern Time. 

Sincerely, the Conveners:

Caitano da Silva, New Mexico Tech
Rasha Abbasi, Loyola University Chicago
Adonis Leal, New Mexico Tech

All Atmospheric & Space Electricity sessions can be found here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/prelim.cgi/Program/5248 <https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prelim.cgi/Program/4770>

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Caitano L. da Silva, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
Dept. of Physics & Langmuir Lab
New Mexico Tech
801 Leroy Place, Workman 351
Socorro, NM 87801
Phone: (575) 835-5341
sites.google.com/nmt.edu/cdasilva


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