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Member Since 2010
Hugh J. Christian Jr
Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Professional Experience
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Principal Research Scientist
Education
Rice University
Doctorate
1977
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2020
Citation
For pioneering space-based lightning mapping instruments and advancing knowledge of atmospheric and space electricity
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Benjamin Franklin Lecture
Received December 2017
Publications
A Rapid Gamma‐Ray Glow Flux Reduction Observed From 20 km Altitude
Two gamma‐ray glows were observed by a high‐altitude NASA ER‐2 aircraft flying at 20 km altitude over a thunderstorm in Colo...
May 06, 2021
Submicrosecond Spectroscopy of Lightning‐Like Discharges: Ex...
August 07, 2020
First 10 Months of TGF Observations by ASIM
December 19, 2019
Gamma Ray Glow Observations at 20-km Altitude
July 08, 2019
AGU Abstracts
Evaluation of present and future spaceborne lightning observations during the ALOFT campaign
LIGHTNING OBSERVATIONS FROM SPACE AND THUNDERSTORM EFFECTS IN THE NEAR-EARTH SPACE ENVIRONMENT II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 13 december 2023
Timothy J. Lang, Mason G. Quick, Christopher J. Sc...
The ALOFT1 campaign took place during July 2023. The NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft was based in Tampa, Florida, and flew approximately 60 hours sam...
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Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash observations by the ALOFT flight campaign
ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE ELECTRICITY QUICK STRIKES ELIGHTNING
atmospheric and space electricity | 13 december 2023
Martino Marisaldi, Nikolai Ostgaard, Timothy J. La...
The Airborne Lightning Observatory for FEGS and TGFs (ALOFT) was a field campaign for observing Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) and gamma-ray glo...
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Employing Optical Lightning Data to identify lightning flashes associated to Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 12 december 2023
Christoph Koehn, Matthias Heumesser, Olivier Chanr...
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) are bursts of energetic X- and gamma-rays emitted from thunderstorms and observed by the Atmosphere-Space Interac...
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