85th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 8: Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 3: Mesoscale

Tuesday, 11 January 2005: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Chair:  Walter A. Petersen, University of Alabama
Papers:
  3:30 PM
8.1
Environmental control of cloud-to-ground lightning polarity in severe storms during IHOP
Lawrence D. Carey, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and K. M. Buffalo

http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/faculty/carey.html

  3:45 PM
8.2
The Houston Environmental Aerosol Thunderstorm (HEAT) Project – 2005
Richard E. Orville, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and L. Carey, J. Nielsen-Gammon, D. Collins, R. Zhang, A. Stuart, B. Ely, S. Steiger, and J. Smith

  4:00 PM
8.3
Dissecting the anomaly—A closer look at the documented enhancement in summertime ground flash densities in and around the Houston area
Michael L. Gauthier, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and R. E. Orville

  4:15 PM
8.4
Towards the relationship between total lightning activity and downward as well as upward ice mass fluxes in thunderstorms
Wiebke Deierling, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, J. Latham, S. M. Ellis, and H. J. Christian Jr.

Poster PDF (431.4 kB)
  4:30 PM
8.5
Applications of the Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System Database
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and J. W. Weems and P. B. Wahner