Session 5B Storm electrification, lightning, and STEPS (Parallel with Session 5A)

Wednesday, 13 September 2000: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Host: 20th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Organizers:
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research Inc., Ft. Collins, CO and Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL

Papers:
8:00 AM
5B.1
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

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