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The Novel View of Gamma-Ray Active Thunderclouds from the ALOFT Flight Campaign
ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE ELECTRICITY QUICK STRIKES ELIGHTNING
atmospheric and space electricity | 11 december 2024
Martino Marisaldi, Nikolai Ostgaard, Timothy J. La...
The ALOFT* 2023 flight campaign is revolutionizing the field of atmospheric electricity, providing observations of gamma-ray emissions from tropical t...
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Temporal Characteristics of Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes (FGFs) as Seen by iSTORM During the 2023 ALOFT Campaign
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Daniel Shy, J Eric Grove, Bernard F. Phlips, M. Ke...
Prior to 2023, two different gamma-ray transients were known to originate from thunderstorms: Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) and gamma-ray glows...
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Spectral analysis of Flickering Gamma Flashes observed during the ALOFT 2023 Campaign
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
David Sarria, Nikolai Ostgaard, Martino Marisaldi,...
In this presentation, we focus on a new population of high energy radiation events called Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes (FGF) detected during The Airbo...
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Temporal Morphology of Gamma-ray Glows from Thunderstorms Using iSTORM During the 2023 ALOFT Campaign
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
J Eric Grove, Daniel Shy, Bernard F. Phlips, M. Ke...
The 2023 ALOFT campaign surveyed Caribbean and Central American thunderstorms from a NASA ER-2 at 20-km altitude. The aircraft was outfitted with a fu...
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Broadband VHF Observations of ALOFT TGFs
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS I ORAL
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Mark A. Stanley, Paul R. Krehbiel, Ronald J. Thoma...
On July 29, 2023, a NASA ER-2 aircraft flew over active thunderstorms near the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) which were producing gamma-glows, Terrestria...
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Small Discharges at Thunderstorm Tops Imaged with VHF Interferometry
PHYSICS OF STREAMERS, LEADERS, AND THE LIGHTNING DISCHARGE II ORAL
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Yunjiao Pu, Steven A. Cummer, Olaf Scholten, Ningy...
During the 2023 Airborne Lightning Observatory for FEGS and TGFs (ALOFT) campaign, a short-baseline VHF (0-250 MHz) interferometer was deployed in sou...
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Monitoring Daytime and Nighttime Ionospheric Disturbances in Real Time utilizing AM Radio Signals
ADVANCES IN RADIO FREQUENCY PROPAGATION MODELING AND APPLICATIONS I POSTER
spa-aeronomy | 10 december 2024
Yongze Jia, Yunjiao Pu, Steven A. Cummer
We have developed a software-defined radio (SDR)-based receiver system for detecting ionospheric disturbances utilizing AM radio signals (530 kHz 170...
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Continuous Initial Breakdown Development of In‐Cloud Lightning Flashes
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
24 october 2024
Yunjiao Pu, Steven A. Cummer
Using a 30–250 MHz VHF interferometer, we observed a previously unreported mode of initial lightning development inside thunderclouds. T...