Session 5B |
| | Storm electrification, lightning, and STEPS (Parallel with Session 5A) |
| | Organizers: Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research Inc., Ft. Collins, CO; Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL
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| 8:00 AM | 5B.1 | An overview of the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS)
Morris L. Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. J. Miller |
| 8:15 AM | 5B.2 | Lightning and other electrical observations in STEPS
Donald R. MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and W. D. Rust, P. Krehbiel, A. Detwiler, J. Helsdon, S. A. Rutledge, L. Carey, and W. Beasley |
| 8:30 AM | 5B.3 | Results from the SPRITES'99 and STEPS 2000 Field Programs
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and T. E. Nelson and J. Fossum |
| 8:45 AM | 5B.4 | Influence of the local environment on 2 June 1995 supercell cloud-to-ground lightning polarity
Matthew S. Gilmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO and Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and L. J. Wicker |
| 9:00 AM | 5B.5 | Lightning Distributions over the Florida Peninsula
Todd P. Lericos, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg and A. I. Watson |
| 9:15 AM | 5B.6 | Cloud-to-ground lightning in linear MCS archetypes without trailing stratiform precipitation
Matthew D. Parker, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. H. Johnson and S. A. Rutledge |
| 9:30 AM | 5B.7 | Numerically simulated lightning production in severe storms
Edward R. Mansell, Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman, J. M. Straka, and C. L. Ziegler |
| 9:45 AM | 5B.8 | Predicting Convective Rainfall Amounts from Lightning Flash Density
Kerry R. Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada |