• Monday 18 June:
  • Tuesday 19 June:
  • Wednesday 20 June:
  • Thursday 21 June:
  • Friday 22 June

  • (Upadted2018/06/06 20:00:00 JST)



    Monday, 18 June



    08:45 Opening Ceremony



    09:15 (Monday) Oral 01: Global Electric Circuit

    Chairs: Earle Williams and Masashi Kamogawa
    09:15O-01-01: Recent progress in global electric circuit modeling
    Evgeny A. Mareev, Nikolay N. Slyunyaev, Evgeny M. Volodin
    09:30O-01-02: Implementation of thunderstorm generators operating in different regimes in global electric circuit models
    Nikolay N. Slyunyaev, Evgeny A. Mareev, Alexey V. Kalinin, Artem A. Zhidkov
    09:45O-01-03: Comparative Behavior of the DC and AC Global Circuits
    Earle R. Williams, Robert Boldi, Ralph Markson, Michael Peterson
    10:00O-01-04: The Link Between the Schumann Resonances and Biological Systems
    Gal Elhalel, Colin Price, Asher Shainberg, Dror Fixler

    10:15 Break



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    10:45 (Monday) Oral 02: Fair Weather and Atmospheric Ions

    Chairs: Colin Price and Evgeny Mareev
    10:45O-02-01: Droplet charging in stratiform clouds
    Keri Nicoll, R. Giles Harrison
    11:00O-02-02: Measurement of electric potential of isolated vertical conductive wires pulled by a drone under fair weather conditions
    Joan Montanya, Victor March, Oscar van der Velde, Jesus A. Lopez, David Romero, Pol Fontanes, Michele Urbani
    11:15O-02-03: Responses of air ions to variations in atmospheric radioactivity in the lower atmosphere
    Xuemeng Chen, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Jussi Paatero, Susana Barbosa, Antti Makela, Tuukka Petaja, Markku Kulmala
    11:30O-02-04: Electrical state formation of mid-latitude planetary boundary layer over land
    Sergei Vasilevich Anisimov, Sergei V. Galichenko, Konstantin V. Aphinogenov, Aleksey V. Guriev, Alina S. Koz’mina, Aleksandr A. Prokhorchuk

    11:45 Break



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    12:00 (Monday) Oral 03: Lightning Hazards and Mitigation, Related Topics

    Chairs: Daohong Wang and Yasuhide Hobara
    12:00O-03-01: The Research of Damage Influence Factors on Ancient Building Timber Subjected to Lightning Strike
    Jing Xiao Li, Xiaoqing Zhang, Jing Li, Rujian Li, Pingjian Song
    12:15O-03-02: Intense positive atmospheric electric field due to snow blizzard electrification at Antarctica
    Masashi Kamogawa, Yasuhiro Minamoto, Akira Kadokura, Mitsuteru Sato
    12:30O-03-03: Lightning Parameters Relating to Damage to Wind Turbines Around the Coast of the Japan Sea
    Kazuo Yamamoto, Tsubasa Kai, Shinichi Sumi
    12:45O-03-04: Appearance of lightning strokes to power distribution lines
    Shigeru Yokoyama, Tomoyuki Sato, Yasuji Hongo
    13:00O-03-05: Laboratory Modeling of Sprites
    Andrey A. Evtushenko, Sergey V. Korobkov, Askold V. Strikovskiy, Michael E. Gushchin, Evgeny A. Mareev

    13:15 Lunch Break



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    14:30 (Monday) Posters 1&2: Global Electric Circuit Fair Weather and Atmospheric Ions

    Chair: R. Giles Harrison
    14:30P-01-01: On the variation of the atmospheric electric field in South America: The AFINSA Network
    Jose Carlos Tacza Anaya, Jean-Pierre Raulin, Adolfo Marun, German Fernandez
    14:30P-01-02: Penetration of nonstationary ionospheric electric fields into lower atmospherIc layers in the global electric circuit model
    Vladimir Nicolaevich Morozov
    14:30P-01-03: Ionospheric Potential Shielding by the Cloud Layer
    Maria Shatalina, Vladimir Klimenko, Eugeny Mareev
    14:30P-01-04: On the number of lightning discharges from the GLD 360 network and the atmospheric electric field Ez in polar and middle latitude regions
    Marek Kubicki, Marek Gokowski, Piotr Baraski
    14:30P-01-05: Depletion of Atmospheric electric field during Solar Proton Events over South Polar Cap region
    Jeni Victor Nepolian, Frank Kamenetsky A. V., Manu S, Panneerselvam C
    WithdrawnP-01-06: The effect of solar events on the fair weather E-field in Israel
    Roy Yaniv, Yoav Yair, Colin Price, Shai Katz
    14:30P-01-07: Towards monitoring the global atmospheric potential gradient - GLOCAEM
    Keri Nicoll, R. Giles Harrison
    WithdrawnP-01-08: Atmospheric electric field variation in different altitudes
    Hripsime Mkrtchyan
    14:30P-01-09: Contribution of conduction current to Global Electric Circuit during thunderstorms
    Gopalakrishnan V, Sunil D. Pawar, Dipjyoti Mudliar, Manoj Domkawale
    WithdrawnP-01-10: Features of numerical modeling of the global electric circuit
    Fedor A. Kuterin, Nikolai N. Slyunyaev, Nikolay V. Ilin
    14:30P-01-11: Atmospheric electricity changes possibly related around the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake
    Katsumi Hattori, Kaori Oyama, Chie Yoshino, Ryuichi Furuya
    14:30P-01-12: A Comparison of the Predictive Powers of Various Uniform Cavity Models: A Comparison of 25 years of data collected at Rhode Island, USA
    Robert Boldi, Earle Williams, Anirban Guha
    14:30P-01-13: The Ranking of Africa in Daily Global Lightning Activity
    E. Williams, A. Guha, Y. Liu, R. Boldi, E. Pracser, R. Said, G. Satori, T. Bozoki, J. Bor, M. Atkinson, C. Beggan, S. Cummer, F. Lyu, B. Fain, Y. Hobara, A. Koloskov, A. Kulak, R. McCraty, J. Mlynarczyk , J. Montanya, R. Moore, M. Neska, P. Ortega, C. Price, R. Rawat, M. Sato, A. Sinha, Y. Yampolski
    14:30P-02-01: Variability of ground-based high altitude atmospheric electric field measurements
    Jose Carlos Tacza Anaya, Jean-Pierre Raulin, Adolfo Marun, German Fernandez
    14:30P-02-02: Variability of the near earth's atmospheric layer electrical conductivity at middle latitudes
    Konstantin V. Aphinogenov, Sergey V. Anisimov, Sergey V. Galichenko, Alexey V. Guriev
    WithdrawnP-02-03: High resolution measurements of the vertical ionization rate in the planetary boundary layer using drones
    Yuval Reuveni, Yoav Yair, Colin Price, Boaz Ben-Mosh
    14:30P-02-04: Frequency and time analysis of the effect of sunrise in the electric field of the surface layer of the atmosphere
    Sergey Ed. Smirnov
    14:30P-02-05: Manifestation of space weather effects in atmospheric electric parameter variations at a mid-latitudinal observatory
    Sergey Ed. Smirnov
    14:30P-02-06: Effects of atmospheric boundary layer turbulence on variations in fair-weather electric field
    Sergey V. Galichenko, Sergey V. Anisimov, Konstantin V. Aphinogenov, Aleksandr A. Prokhorchuk
    WithdrawnP-02-07: Experimental Profiles of Atmospheric Electrical Characteristics in the Surface Layer Depending Upon Significant Factors: Mixing, Radon, Aerosols
    Galena G. Petrova, Anatoly I. Petrov, Irina N. Panchishkina, Evgeny V. Egorov
    WithdrawnP-02-08: Results of Expedition Research of Thermodynamic Conditions Impact in Atmosphere on Charge Transfer under the Influence of Mechanical Forces
    Irina N. Panchishkina, Galena G. Petrova, Anatoly I. Petrov
    14:30P-02-09: Factors in fair weather selection of surface atmospheric electricity data
    R Giles Harrison, Keri A. Nicoll
    14:30P-02-10: Miniaturized atmospheric ionization detector
    Karen L Aplin, Aaron A Briggs, Adam Baird, Peter Hastings, R Giles Harrison, Graeme J. Marlton
    14:30P-02-11: Possible sources of aerosol and meteorological parameters over Alaknanda Valley Garhwal Himalaya Uttarakhand, India
    Alok Sagar Gautam
    14:30P-02-12: Characteristics of Atmospheric Parameter Change at Asahi Station, Boso Peninsula, Japan ~Observational Study on Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling ~
    Junpei Omura, Peng Han, Chie Yoshino, Katsumi Hattori, Michikuni Shimo, Toshiharu Konishi, Ryuichi Furuya

    16:00 Break



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    16:30 (Monday) Posters 3&6: Lightning Hazards and Mitigation, Related Topics, Lightning Physics

    Chair: Megumu Miki
    16:30P-03-01: Optimization of lightning risk assessment system
    Xia Li, Nannan Song, Yunlong Li
    16:30P-03-02: The Nature of Winter thunderstorms and Lightning Strikes to Aircraft around the Hokuriku coastal area of Japan
    Koichiro Michimoto
    16:30P-03-03: Extreme Thunderstorms in South America
    Carlos A. Morales
    16:30P-03-04: Experimental Study in High Voltage Laboratory for The Effect of Atmospheric Electric Field to The Corona Current
    Sharifah Sakinah Tuan Othman, Jasronita Jasni, Mohd Nazim Mohtar, Norhafiz Azis, Mohd Zainal Abidin Ab Kadir
    16:30P-03-05: Research on the Index of MOV in Single and Multi Pulse Test Environment
    Zhongjiang Yang, Jia-yi Lou, Tian-qi yang
    16:30P-03-06: Design and development of polarimetric C-band phased array weather radar
    Tomoaki Kida, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Taku Suezawa, Tomoo Ushio
    16:30P-03-07: Visualizing lightning and turbulence through a combined art-science exhibit
    Eric C. Bruning, Tina Fuentes, Samantha Berkseth, Vicente Salinas
    16:30P-03-08: Description of the Volcanic Activity of Puyehue - Cordon Caulle in 2011 Based on its Electrification and Meteorological Parameters
    Daiana Baissac, Gabriela Nicora, Eldo Avila, Gabriela Badi
    16:30P-03-09: Initial observation of the Ku-band Broadband Dual-polarization Radar
    Yoshitaka Nakamura, Keitaro Asai, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Tomoaki Mega, Tomoo Ushio, Takeshi Morimoto
    16:30P-03-10: Space Stem as candidate for Ball Lightning
    Satoshi Kawano
    16:30P-03-11: Experimental Study of the Frequency Dependence of Soil Parameters and its Effect on the Lightning Response of Grounding Electrodes
    Donghui Luo, Wenxia Sima, Tao Yuan, Chengchen Xian, Potao Sun, Xiaochuan Li, Qian Tang
    16:30P-03-12: Space elevator and atmospheric electricity
    Takeshi Kudo, Masashi Kamogawa, Yasuaki Kasai, Naotatsu Ishimaru, Yoji Ishikawa, Kiyotoshi Otsuka, Yasuhiro Fuchita
    16:30P-06-01: Recent Progress in Studying Lightning Initiation, Propagation, and Attachment
    Vladimir A. Rakov, Evgeny A. Mareev, Manh D. Tran, Nikolay A. Bogatov, Alexander Yu. Kostinskiy, Vladimir S. Syssoev
    16:30P-06-02: Numerical simulation of the effect of horizontal distribution forms of space charge in thunderstorms on lightning discharge
    Yongbo Tan, Hui Lin
    16:30P-06-03: The Lightning Attachment Process and its Relation to Ball Lightning Creation and Disappearance
    Herbert Friedrich Boerner
    16:30P-06-04: Three dimensional feature of Regular Pulses Bursts
    Wang Yanhui, Wang Tuo, Zhang Guangshu, Li Yajun
    16:30P-06-05: Characteristics of continuing current in lightning flashes
    Megumu Miki, Toru Miki, Mikihisa Saito, Koudai Nagata, Masahito Shimizu, Fukumune Suzuki, Takeshi Morimoto
    16:30P-06-06: Observation of Multiple Ground Termination Storke Using High-speed Digital Camera Systems
    Megumu Miki, Toru Miki, Mikihisa Saito, Koudai Nagata, Masahito Shimizu, Takashi Morimoto, Fukumune Suzuki
    16:30P-06-07: Description of the GrAnada Lightning Ultrafast Spectrograph (GALIUS)
    Francisco J. Gordillo-Vazquez, Maria Passas, Justo Sanchez, Ny Kieu
    16:30P-06-08: Preliminary GALIUS spectra of sparks produced by a small electrostatic generator
    Ny Kieu, Maria Passas, Justo Sanchez, Francisco J. Gordillo-Vazquez
    16:30P-06-09: Bipolar lightning currents observed around Mt. Ogami in winter
    Noriyasu Honma, Noriyasu Suzuki, Yasuji Hongo, Takaaki Konno
    16:30P-06-10: Designation of M-component characteristics in time and time-frequency domain on the basis of cloud-to-ground lightning flash electric field signatures recorded by the new autonomous detection station in Rzeszow
    Grzegorz Karnas, Grzegorz Maslowski, Piotr Baranski
    16:30P-06-11: The Luminous Properties of Natural Cloud-to-ground Lightning Return Strokes and M-components
    Xuejuan Wang, Ping Yuan, Guorong Liu, Bin Fan
    16:30P-06-12: The conduction characteristic of return stroke channel obtained by lightning spectra
    Bin Fan, Ping Yuan, Yanling Su, Jianyong Cen, Xuejuan Wang, Jinhao Wang
    16:30P-06-13: Analysis of the high-speed time-resolved spectra and current of a triggered lightning flash
    Yijun Zhang, Huaming Zhang, Weitao Lyu, Yang Zhang, Dong Zheng, Yanfeng Fan
    16:30P-06-14: Characteristics of Upward Lightning on Canton Tower in 2016
    Qi Qi, Weitao Lyu, Bin Wu, Luwen Chen, Ying Ma, Zhiguo Su, Changxiu Zhang
    16:30P-06-15: Recoil leader progress in an upward lightning flash on Canton tower
    Bin Wu, Weitao Lyu, Qi Qi, Ying Ma, Luwen Chen, Zhiguo Su
    16:30P-06-16: 3D simulations of long and branching streamer discharges
    Behnaz Bagheri Varnousfaderani, Jannis Teunissen, Ute Ebert
    16:30P-06-17: Investigating streamer initiation related to lightning inception
    Shahriar Mirpour, Sander Nijdam
    16:30P-06-18: Towards microscopically-based models of lightning coronas
    Miguel Boaventura Teixeira Gomes, Marta Gonzalez, Francisco Jose Gordillo Vazquez, Alejandro Luque Estepa
    16:30P-06-19: Lightning attachment process of rocket triggered return strokes observed by using LAPOS 5
    Yamada Hideyuki, D. Wang, T. Wu, N. Takagi, D. Jordan, and M. A. Uman
    16:30P-06-20: Stochastic discharge inception near ice particles and other dielectric objects
    Casper Rutjes, Jannis Teunissen, Ute Ebert
    16:30P-06-21: Comparison of optical emission from Cloud-to-Ground Lightning observed by High-Speed Camera and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)
    Larissa Antunes da Silva, Osmar Pinto Jr., Scott Rudlosk, Michael J. Peterson, Antonio Carlos Varela Saraiva
    16:30P-06-22: Sub-Microsecond Radio Emission from Thunderclouds
    Anatoly N. Karashtin, Yury V. Shlyugaev, Aleksey A. Bulatov, Olga S. Karashtina, Fedor A. Kuterin, Petr A. Mikryukov
    16:30P-06-23: Generation of Stems in Streamer Corona of Negative Leader
    Dmitry I. Iudin, Artem A. Syssoev, Nikolay A. Popov

    18:00 Committee Meeting



    Tuesday, 19 June


    08:45 (Tuesday) Keynote Lecture 01: Lightning Meteorology

    Chairs: James Dye and Yoav Yair
    08:45O-K-01: Meteorological Aspects of Lightning and Thunderstorm Electrification
    Donald MacGorman

    09:15 (Tuesday) Oral 4: Thunderstorm Electrification and Microphysics

    Chairs: James Dye and Yoav Yair
    09:15O-04-01: Microphysical Structure and Lightning Initiation in Hokuriku Winter Clouds
    Tsutomu Takahashi, Soichiro Sugimoto, Tetsuya Kawano
    09:30O-04-02: In Situ Microphysical Observations and Local Electric Fields inside Severe Convection during DC3
    Sean Michael Waugh, Conrad Ziegler, Donald MacGorman
    09:45O-04-03: Observations of Electrification in Deep, Precipitating Stratiform Clouds
    James E. Dye, Aaron Bansemer
    10:00O-04-04: The Effect of Dry-Air Entrainment on Charge Structure in Cellular Thunderstorms
    Vanna C. Chmielewski, Eric C. Bruning, Brian C. Ancell
    10:15O-04-05: Electric field measurements during snowstorms on Mt. Hermon, Israel
    Yoav Yair, Yuval Reuveni, Baruch Ziv, Shai Katz, Colin Price, Roy Yaniv
    10:30O-04-06: Electrification and lightning in idealized simulations of steady state, weakening and intensifying tropical cyclones
    Alexandre O Fierro, Edward R. Mansell

    10:45 Break



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    11:15 (Tuesday) Oral 5: Lightning and Meteorology

    Chairs: Donald MacGorman and Namiko Sakurai
    11:15O-05-01: Flash Attributes and the Kinematic, Microphysical, and Electrical Structure of a Multicell Thunderstorm Observed during DC3
    Elizabeth A. DiGangi, Donald R. MacGorman, Conrad L. Zeigler, Michael Biggerstaff
    11:30O-05-02: Influence of three tall structures with different heights on cloud-to-ground lightning in their vicinities
    Weitao Lyu, Changxiu Zhang, Ying Ma, Lyuwen Chen, Qi Qi, Zhiguo Su, Yijun Zhang, Yanan Zhu
    11:45O-05-03: The coupling of thunderstorm kinetic and electrical energetics
    Eric C. Bruning, Vicente Salinas, Cameron Nixon, Samantha Berkseth, Matthew Brothers, Edward R. Mansell, Vanna C. Chmielewski
    12:00O-05-04: Automated analysis and statistics of lightning leader speed, local flash rates and electric charge structure in thunderstorms
    Oscar A. van der Velde, Joan Montanya, Jesus A. Lopez
    12:15O-05-05: Lightning Activity in Different Convection Area of a Severe Squall Line with Cell Merging Process
    Xiushu Qie, Yan Xu, Shanfeng Yuan, Zhixiong Chen, Dongfang Wang, Abhay Srivastava, Ye Tian
    12:30O-05-06: Spatial-temporal Relationship between Precipitation Cores and Lightning Channels Observed by Phased Array Weather Radars and BOLT
    Yukie Moroda, Kazuhisa Tsuboki, Shinsuke Satoh, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Tomoo Ushio, Hiroshi Kikuchi
    12:45O-05-07: High-resolution Study on Lightning and Precipitation Activity by EM Observations in Toyama, Japan
    Takeshi Morimoto, Makoto Tojyo, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Fumiya Beniya, Hideo Sakai, Masahito Shimizu, Kodai Nagata
    13:00O-05-08: Lightning rate and its relationship with intensity of typhoons over the Northwest Pacific
    Dongjie Cao, Feng Lu, Xiaohu Zhang, Zhiqing Zhang, Qinghua Liu

    13:15 Lunch Break



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    14:30 (Tuesday) Posters 4&5: Thunderstorm Electrification and Microphysics, Lightning and Meteorology

    Chair: Eiichi Yoshikawa
    14:30P-04-01: Thunderstorm electrification studies based on electric field- mill measurements, dual-pol radar data and simulations from cloud electrification model
    Kleber Pinheiro Naccarato, Flavio Carvalho Magina, Andre A. R. Morais
    14:30P-04-02: Environmental Conditions Producing Thunderstorms with Anomalous Vertical Polarity of Charge Structure
    Alexander J. Eddy, Donald R. MacGorman, Cameron R. Homeyer, Earle Williams
    14:30P-04-03: Charging Regions in an Anomalously Electrified Supercell
    Vanna C. Chmielewski, Donald R. MacGorman, Conrad Ziegler, Elizabeth DiGangi, Daniel Betten, Michael Biggerstaff
    14:30P-04-04: Analysis of Electric Field Soundings through Simulated Storms
    Edward R. Mansell, Alexandre O. Fierro, Donald R. MacGorman, Maribeth Stolzenburg, Thomas C. Marshall, Conrad L. Ziegler
    14:30P-04-05: Comparison between the electrostatic equilibrium on aircraft flying in convective cloud and the local total water content
    Aurelie Bouchard, Pierre Laroche, Philippe Lalande, Patrice Blanchet, Magalie Buguet, Arnaud Chazottes
    14:30P-04-06: Suppression of bag mode of drop breakup in horizontal electric fields
    Rohini Vilas Bhalwankar, C.G. Deshpande, A. K. Kamra
    14:30P-04-07: Research on the Evolution Characteristics of Hydrometeors in Thunderstorm Cell with X-band Dual-polarimetric Radar
    Yunjun Zhou, Xiaomin Li, Hui Xiao
    14:30P-04-08: Characteristics of Lightning Flash Size in a Supercell Storm
    Dong Zheng, Zhixiao Zhang, Yijun Zhang, Gaopeng Lu
    14:30P-04-09: Classification of electric field potential gradient variations during the passage of isolated air mass cumulonimbus clouds
    Konstantin Nikolaevich Pustovalov, Peter Michailovich Nagorskiy
    14:30P-04-10: The Analysis on a Type of Negative Cloud-to-ground Flash Predominate Thunderstorm in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
    Yajun Li, Guangshu Zhang, Yanhui Wang, Bin Wu
    14:30P-04-11: An Updated Balloon-Borne Disdrometer for High Resolution Microphysical Observations in Severe Convection
    Sean Waugh, Conrad Ziegler
    14:30P-04-12: The feedback effect of electric field force on electrification and charge structure in thunderstorm
    Ling Sun, Xiushu Qie, Edward R. Mansell, Zhixiong Chen
    14:30P-04-13: Relay Electrical Conductivity of Intracloud Media due to Small-Scale Stochastic Discharges
    Stanislav S. Davydenko, Dmitry I. Iudin, Alexey A. Emelyanov, Vitaly Yu. Klimashov
    14:30P-04-14: Effects of Turbulence on Thunderstorm Electrification
    Svetlana Dementyeva, Evgeny Mareev
    WithdrawnP-04-15: Effects of Lightning discharges on precipitation rates in severe Thunderstorms
    Dipjyoti Mudiar, Sunil D. Pawar, Anupam Hazar, Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Bhupendra Nath Goswami
    14:30P-04-16: Inverted Polarity thunderstorms observed over India
    Sunil D. Pawar, Gopalakrishnan Venkatachalam, Manoj Domkawale, Dipjyoti Mudliar
    14:30P-04-17: Radar-Observed Characteristics of Single-Cell thunderstorms in the UK
    Benjamin Courtier, Thorwald Stein, Giles Harrison, Kirsty Hanley, Jonathan Wilkinson
    14:30P-04-18: Simulation of electrification and lightning on a thunderstorm over Brazil using the Meso-NH model with observational data comparison.
    Morais A. A. R., K. P. Naccarato, C. Barthe, R. R. Azambuja
    14:30P-04-19: Storm morphology and thunderstorm electrification during CHUVA and SOS-CHUVA field campaigns
    Rachel Albrecht, Camila Lopes, Raidiel Puig, Luiz Machado, Edmilson Freitas, Isabela Siqueira, Ana Avila, Thiago Biscaro, Allan Calheiros, Izabelly Costa, Tiago Ifanger, Kleber Naccarato
    14:30P-04-20: The Influence of Hail on Severe Storms Electrification
    Camila Lopes, Rachel Ifanger Albrecht
    14:30P-04-21: Environmental Influences on the Lightning of Continental Cumulonimbus Clouds
    Vaughan Phillips
    14:30P-05-01: Numerical simulation of 23 June 2016 Yancheng City EF4 tornadic supercell and analysis of lightning activity
    Fengxia Guo, Li Yang, Huang ZhaoChu, Wang ManFei, Zeng FanHui, Lian ChunHao, Mu YiJun
    14:30P-05-02: Dynamic and electric charge structure of thunderclouds obtained from the WRF_ELEC model and related to electric field signatures of lightning strokes recorded by the Local Lightning Detection Network in the Warsaw region during thunderstorm season in 2017
    Piotr Baranski, Jakub Guzikowski, Marek Kubicki, Marek Morawski, Andrzej Skrzynski
    14:30P-05-03: Development of lightning model for a next generation library for weather and climate model, SCALE
    Yousuke Sato, Hirofumi Tomita
    WithdrawnP-05-04: The evolution and extratropical transition of tropical cyclones during the 2017 hurricane season from a GLM, ISS LIS and GPM perspective
    Patrick N. Gatlin, Lena Huescher, Walter A. Petersen, Daniel J. Cecil, Chuntao Liu
    14:30P-05-05: Lightning Characteristics of Tropical Storm Bebinca (2013) and Super Typhoon Rammasun (2014)
    Fangcong Zhou, Tinglong Zhang, Yi Gao, Hai Yu
    14:30P-05-06: Lightning Characteristics in Japan Observed by the JLDN from 2001 to 2015
    Akiko Sugita, Michihiro Matsui
    14:30P-05-07: Relationship between Winter Lightning and Snowfall Modes in Japan
    Fumiya Beniya, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Takeshi Morimoto, Hiroki Motoyoshi, Hideo Sakai
    14:30P-05-08: Relationship Between Lightning Charge Transfer and Atmospheric Conditions in winter in Tohoku
    Kazuki Akiyama, Koji Michishita, Shigeru Yokoyama, Nobuyuki Honjo
    WithdrawnP-05-09: Characteristics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning over Guangdong Province, South China based on the continuous LLS observation during 2004-2015
    Yu Wang, Shanqiang Gu, Biwu Yan, Juntian Guo
    14:30P-05-10: Characteristics of total lightning associated with recent hazardous weather events in Japan
    Yasuhide Hobara, Shintaro Kono, Tetsuya Ogawa, Stan Heckman, Michael Stock, Charlie Liu
    14:30P-05-11: First analysis of IC initial leaders in the tropical atmosphere
    Jesus A. Lopez, Joan Montanya, Oscar van der Velde, David Romero
    14:30P-05-12: Initiation altitude of lightning flashes and its relation to the Radar reflectivity
    Abhay Srivastava, Shanfeng Yuan, Dongfang Wang, Zhuling Sun
    14:30P-05-13: A Review of Contributions by W. David Rust to Atmospheric Electricity
    A. Connor Madden, Donald R. MacGorman
    14:30P-05-14: Observations of thunderstorm kinematics: Characteristics of lightning in turbulent environments
    Vicente Salinas, Eric C. Bruning, Samantha Berkseth
    14:30P-05-15: Finding correlations between lightning activity and radar data using machine learning
    Nikolay V. Ilin, Fedor A. Kuterin
    14:30P-05-16: Analysis of environmental conditions related to thunderstorms developed over different regions of Bulgaria
    Boryana D. Tsenova, Boryana Markova, Rumjana Mitzeva
    14:30P-05-17: The relationship between lightning activities and aerosol over different regions in China
    Zheng Shi, Tan Yongbo, Du Sai
    14:30P-05-18: Lightning activity in the two most active areas of Equatorial Africa
    Jean Kigotsi, Serge Soula, Jean-Francois Georgis
    14:30P-05-19: Lightning Climatology Study over Central Himalayala Uttarkhand
    Alok Sagar Gautam, Penki Ramesh Kumar
    14:30P-05-20: Spatial Relationship between the Return strokes of Cloud-to-ground Lightning Flashes in Stratiform Region and the Bright Band
    Fei Wang, Yijun Zhang, Hengyi Liu
    14:30P-05-21: Observed Downward and Upward Lightning Strikes at Tokyo Skytree during 2012 to 2017
    Toru Miki, Mikihisa Saito, Soichiro Sugimoto, Takatoshi Shindo, Masaru Ishii

    16:00 Break



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    16:30 (Tuesday) Posters 6 (Cont.): Lightning Physics

    Chair: Yoshitaka Nakamura
    16:30P-06-24: Modeling the Stepping Mechanism of Development of Negative Lightning Leader
    Artem A. Syssoev, Dmitry I. Iudin, Stanislav S. Davydenko, Vladimir A. Rakov
    16:30P-06-25: Collective Dynamics of Charged Hydrometeors in Thunderclouds and Lightning Initiation
    Dmitry I. Iudin, Vladimir A. Rakov, Nikolay A. Popov, Artem A. Syssoev, Alexey A. Bulatov, Masashi Hayakawa
    16:30P-06-26: Comparative Analysis of Correlations between Channel-Bottom Light Intensity and Channel-base Current for Rocket-triggered Lightning Flashes
    Mi Zhou, Daohong Wang, Jianguo Wang, Nobuyuki Takagi, Haitao Huang, Yongyin Lu, Martin A. Uman, Douglas Max Jordan
    16:30P-06-27: Preliminary Discussion on the Electrical Environment Characteristics for the Initiation of Upward Lightning in thunderstorm model
    Tianxue Zheng, Yongbo Tan, Jiechen Zhou
    16:30P-06-28: Influencing Factors on lightning Attachment Process of Lightning Rods
    Zhang Yunfeng, Chen Jiawen, Ren Huan
    16:30P-06-29: Analyzing the transmission structures of long continuing current processes from negative ground flashes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
    Fan Xiangpeng, Zhang Yijun, Zhang Guangshu
    16:30P-06-30: Fractal Model of Structure and Electromagnetic Emission of Compact Intracloud Discharges
    Stanislav S. Davydenko, Dmitry I. Iudin
    16:30P-06-31: Broadband VHF Interferometry Observations at the Kennedy Space Center
    Mark A. Stanley, William Rison, Julia Tilles, Paul R. Krehbiel, Robert G. Brown, Jennifer G. Wilson, Ningyu Liu
    16:30P-06-32: Why Do Statistical Distributions of Lightning Peak Currents Appear to Be Lognormal?
    Evgeny A. Mareev, Nikolay N. Slyunyaev, Vladimir A. Rakov, Georgy S. Golitsyn
    16:30P-06-33: Characteristics of Positive Cloud-to-ground Flashes Triggering Upward Lightning from high Tower
    Shanfeng Yuan, Rubin Jiang, Dongfang Wang, Zhuling Sun, Mingyuan Liu, Xiushu Qie
    16:30P-06-34: Griffiths and Phelps Lightning Initiation Model, Revisited
    Paul R. Krehbiel, Caitano da Silva, Alex Attanasio
    16:30P-06-35: Characteristics of lightning current at wind power generation facilities
    Junya Sawada, Nobuyuki Takagi, Daohong Wang, Ting Wu
    16:30P-06-36: Initial Electric Field Change of Positive Cloud to Ground Lightning Discharges
    Ariadi Hazmi, Reni Desmiarti, Primas Emeraldi, Nobuyuki Takagi
    16:30P-06-37: Acoustic Observation of Lightning Attachment to Wind Turbine
    Jinxin Cao, Jianguo Wang, Hui Qin, Jianguo Dai, Rui Su, Li Cai

    18:00 Committee Meeting



    Wednesday, 20 June

    07:45 Deer gathering (Venue will be informed)


    08:45 (Wednesday) Keynote Lecture 02: Lightning Physics

    Chairs: Maribeth Stolzenburg and Xuan-Min Shao
    08:45O-K-02: Continued Mysteries of Lightning Studies
    Paul Krehbiel, Caitano da Silva, Steven Cummer

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    09:15 (Wednesday) Oral 6: Lightning Physics

    Chairs: Maribeth Stolzenburg and Xuan-Min Shao
    09:15O-06-01: Lightning Initiation Observations in Mississippi Thunderstorms
    Thomas C. Marshall, Sampath Bandara, Sumedhe Karunarathne, Nilmini Karunarathne, Ray Siedlecki, Maribeth Stolzenburg
    09:30O-06-02: Correlation between Current and Luminosity in the Air Gap Discharge
    Yongyin Lu, Mi Zhou, Jianguo Wang, Yadong Fan, Rui Su, Yutong Xiao, Shoupeng Wang, Shimin Su
    09:45O-06-03: Characteristics of a spider lightning and its indication on lightning propagation properties
    Rubin Jiang, Xiushu Qie, Shanfeng Yuan, Yunjiao Pu, Dongfang Wang, Mingyuan Liu, Gaopeng Lu, Zhuling Sun
    10:00O-06-04: An analysis of acoustic and infrasonic sources within lightning flashes recorded in Southern France
    Arthur Lacroix, Thomas Farges, Regis Marchiano, Francois Coulouvrat
    10:15O-06-05: Two Inception Modes of Subsequent Stepped Leaders in Lightning
    Maribeth Stolzenburg, Thomas C. Marshall, Sumedhe Karunarathne, Richard E. Orville
    10:30O-06-06: Experimental Investigation of Streamer Zone of Positive Leader
    Nikolay A. Bogatov, Alexander Yu. Kostinskiy, Vladimir S. Syssoev, Mikhail G. Andreev, Marat U. Bulatov, Dmitry I. Sukharevsky, Evgeny A. Mareev, Vladimir A. Rakov

    10:45 Break



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    11:15 (Wednesday) Oral 6 (Cont.): Lightning Physics

    Chairs: Joan Montanya and Lyu Weitao
    11:15O-06-07: Optical Progression Features of the Step Formation of Two Negative Stepped Leaders
    Haitao Huang, Daohong Wang, Ting Wu, Nobuyuki Takagi
    11:30O-06-08: Space stem precursors
    Alejandro Malagon-Romero, Alejandro Luque
    11:45O-06-09: Characteristics of upward connecting leaders initiated from Tokyo Skytree
    Mikihisa Saito, Toru Miki, Takatoshi Shindo, Masaru Ishii, Takeo Sonehara
    12:00O-06-10: Characteristics of positive cloud-to-ground flashes during SHATLE
    Zhuling Sun, Xiushu Qie, Mingyuan Liu, Yunjiao Pu, Zhixiong Chen, Yu Wang
    12:15O-06-11: Leader Polarity-Reversal Feature and Charge Structure of Upward Bipolar Lightning Flash
    Dongdong Shi, Daohong Wang, Ting Wu, Ronald J. Thomas, Harald E. Edens, William Rison, Nobuyuki Takagi, Paul R. Krehbiel
    12:30O-06-12: Observations of precursor process during the initial stage of a rocket-and-wire-triggered lightning discharge
    Yang Zhang, Paul Ray Krehbiel, Yijun Zhang, Dong Zheng, Weitao Lv
    12:45O-06-13: Measurement of underground magnetic field pulses during the initial stage of rocket-triggered lightning
    Xiao Li, Gaopeng Lu, Yanfeng Fan, Rubin Jiang, Hongbo Zhang, Yongping Wang
    13:00O-06-14: Attachment Processes of Lightning Flashes Striking Transmission Lines and Low Structures
    Megumu Miki, Toru Miki, Mikihisa Saito, Koudai Nagata, Masahito Shimizu, Takeshi Morimoto, Fukumune Suzuki

    13:15 Lunch Break



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    Excursion

    (1)Bus tour will start at 13:30 with box-lunch.

    (2)Walking tours will start at 13:45, but as soon as possible after lunch.



    Thursday, 21 June


    08:45 (Thursday) Keynote Lecture 03: Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)

    Chairs: Pierre Laroche and Tomoo Ushio
    08:45O-K-03: The Geostationary Lightning Mapper: Its Design, Performance and Capabilities
    Hugh Christian

    09:15 (Thursday) Oral 7: Satellite measurements

    Chairs: Pierre Laroche and Hugh Christian
    09:15O-07-01: Simultaneous Space-based Observations of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes and Lightning Optical Emission
    Hugh J. Christian, Samer Al-Nussirat
    WithdrawnO-07-02: Performance assessment and validation of the FY-4A Lightning Mapping Imager
    Dongjie Cao
    09:45O-07-03: Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Lightning Imager (LI)
    Marcel Dobber
    10:00O-07-04: The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the International Space Station
    Torsten Neubert, Victor Reglero, Nikolai Ostgaard
    WithdrawnO-07-05: Mapping Lightning from Space with OTD, LIS, and GLM
    Michael J. Peterson, Scott D. Rudlosky, Larissa Antunes Da Silva
    10:30O-07-06: Saturn lightning after Cassini
    Georg Fischer, William S. Kurth, Donald A. Gurnett, George B. Hospodarsky, Philippe Zarka, Ulyana A. Dyudina, Marc Delcroix

    10:45 Break



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    11:15 (Thursday) Oral 8: Lightning and Thunderstorm Detection Technologies

    Chairs: Paul Krehbiel and Tomoo Ushio
    11:15O-08-01: Geostationary Lightning Mapper Operations during Year One
    Scott D. Rudlosky, Steven J. Goodman, Richard J. Blakeslee, William J Koshak, Douglas M. Mach, Francis Padula
    11:30O-08-02: Fly’s Eye GLM Simulator: Multi-band radiometric observations of lightning from high-altitude aircraft
    Mason G. Quick, Hugh Christian, Richard Blakeslee, Katrina Virts, Michael Stewart, Scott Podgorny, David Corredor
    11:45O-08-03: An analysis of TLE-associated discharges using the data recorded by a new broadband ELF receiver
    Janusz Mlynarczyk, Andrzej Kulak, Martin Popek, Rafal Iwanski, Slawomir Klucjasz, Jerzy Kubisz
    12:00O-08-04: Development of Fast Antenna Lightning Mapping Array (FALMA) and preliminary results
    Ting Wu, Daohong Wang, Nobuyuki Takagi
    12:15O-08-05: Earth Networks ELF Magnetic Array
    Michael Stock, Jeff Lapierre, Saiadithya Cumbulam Thangaraj, Veronika Wrede
    12:30O-08-06: Infrasound Measurement of Lightning, Sprites and Thunderstorms
    David Applbaum, Colin Price, Yoav Yair
    12:45O-08-07: LMA Campaign for the Observation of Upward Lightning at the Santis Tower During Summer 2017: Preliminary Results
    Amirhossein Mostajabi, Nicolau Pineda, Antonio Sunjerga, David Romero, Mohammad Azadifar, Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanya, Gerhard Diendorfer, Marcos Rubinstein, Farhad Rachidi
    13:00O-08-08: Application of sensitive low-frequency magnetic sensor to rocket-triggered lightning experiments
    Gaopeng Lu, Yanfeng Fan, Rubin Jiang, Hongbo Zhang, Mingyuan Liu, Xiushu Qie

    13:15 Lunch Break



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    14:30 (Thursday) Oral 9: Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, Lightning Climatology and Chemical Effects

    Chairs: Xiushu Qie and Takeshi Morimoto
    14:30O-09-01: Lightning Frequency and 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Intensity and Landfall
    Kristin M. Calhoun, Darrel M. Kingfield, Alexandre O. Fierro, P. Adrian Campbell, Anthony Reinhart, Matthew Mahilik, Andrea Schumacher, Eric Bruning
    14:45O-09-02: Development of lightning indices using TOKLMA and X-band polarimetric radar network during the summer season in Tokyo metropolitan area
    Namiko Sakurai, Shingo Shimizu, Koyuru Iwanami, Takeshi Maesaka, Yasushi Uji, Kouichi Hasegawa, Paul Krehbiel, Willian Rison, Daniel Rodeheffer
    15:00O-09-03: Lightning Observation Operators at the Convective Scale: Objective Calibration and Evaluation
    Olivier Caumont, Eric Defer, Jean-Pierre Pinty, Christophe Bovalo, Christelle Barthe, Sylvain Coquillat, Dominique Lambert
    15:15O-09-04: Assimilation of Lightning Data through Comprehensively Nudging Water Contents at Cloud-resolving Scale in the WRF Model
    Zhixiong Chen, Xiushu Qie, DongXia Liu, Yajun Xiong, Dongjie Cao
    15:30O-09-05: Spatio-temporal analysis of lightning activity in Congo basin
    Serge Soula, Jean Kasereka Kigotsi, Jean-Francois Georgis, Christelle Barthe
    15:45O-09-06: Long Term Trends in the Number and Area of Thunderstorms over Africa
    Maayan Harel, Colin Price

    16:00 Break



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    16:30 (Thursday) Posters-7&8: Satellite measurements, Lightning and Thunderstorm Detection Technologies

    Chair: Ting Wu
    16:30P-07-01: Satellite cloud anomaly observed before Japan strong earthquakes
    Guangmeng Guo, Yixuan Li
    16:30P-07-02: ULF electromagnetic field in the upper ionosphere excited by lightning
    Vyacheslav Pilipenko, Evgeniy Fedorov, Nikolay Mazur
    16:30P-07-03: MicroCameras and Photometers (MCP) on board the TARANIS satellite
    Thomas Farges, Philippe Hebert, Fanny Le Mer-Dachard, Karen Ravel, Stephanie Gaillac
    16:30P-07-04: Comparisons of optical lightning observations on JEM-GLIMS with radio observations from the ground
    Hiroshi Kikuchi, Mitsuteru Sato, Tomoo Ushio, Takeshi Morimoto, Atsushi Yamazaki, Makoto Suzuki, Zen Kawasaki
    16:30P-07-05: Flash Optical Energy from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper
    William Koshak, Phillip Bitzer, Steve Goodman
    16:30P-07-06: Lightning Imaging Sensor on the International Space Station: Assessments and Results from First Year Operations
    Richard J. Blakeslee, Hugh J. Christian, Douglas M. Mach, Katrina S. Virts, Dennis E. Buechler, T. Daniel Walder, William J. Koshak, William T. Ellett, Michael F. Stewart
    16:30P-07-07: Latitudinal, Regional, and Seasonal Dependences of IC/CG Ratio Derived from JEM-GLIMS and Ground-based Lightning Network Data
    Kittanapat Bandholnopparat, Mitsuteru Sato, Toru Adachi, Tomoo Ushio, Yukihiro Takahashi
    WithdrawnP-07-08: Characteristics of lightning activity in China using FY-4A Lightning Mapping Imager
    Dongjie Cao
    16:30P-07-09: Pre-seismic whistler wave intensity attenuation: Comparison between DEMETER satellite and WWLLN data
    Masashi Kamogawa, Jean-Jacques Berthelier, Shoho Togo, Tatsuo Onishi, Tetsuya Kodama, Toshiyasu Nagao
    16:30P-07-10: Using Ground-based Laser Beacons to Assess GLM Geolocation Accuracy
    Dennis Edward Buechler, Tom Varghese, Dave McCormick, James Bremer, Pete Armstrong, Donald Chu, Jon Fulbright, Steve Goodman, Douglas Mach
    16:30P-07-11: Search for Optical Lightning Flash with Orbiter and Ground Telescope
    Yukihiro Takahashi, Masataka Imai, Mitsuteru Sato, Ralph Lorenz
    16:30P-07-12: Simple Models of Lightning Clustering at the Planetary Scale: Implications for Remote Sensing Surveys
    Ralph D. Lorenz, Yukihiro Takahashi, Mitsuteru Sato, Kozo Yamashita
    16:30P-08-01: Monitoring Lightning Activity and Other Earth System Variables from Space Using Nanosatellite Technology
    Kleber Pinheiro Naccarato, Manoel Cardoso, Ronan Arraes, Candido O. de Moura, Walter A. dos Santos
    16:30P-08-02: Improving the cloud-to-ground flash density data in Brazil
    Ana Cristina Marotti, Kleber Pinheiro Naccarato, Osmar Pinto Junior
    16:30P-08-03: Analysis and Application of Lightning Waveform Detected on the Overhead Transmission lines
    Shanqiang Gu, Biwu Yan, Yu Wang
    16:30P-08-04: Ground validation of Geostationary Lightning Mapper(GLM) using VHF broadband interferometer
    Ami Kudo, Michael Gordon Stock, Tomoo Ushio
    16:30P-08-05: Analysis of Location Accuracy of ToA-Based Lightning Location Systems in Mountainous Terrain
    Dongshuai Li, Marcos Rubinstein, Farhad Rachidi, Gerhard Diendorfer, Wolfgang Schulz
    16:30P-08-06: A Study of Earth's Curvature Effect on LEMP Propagation Over Distances Ranging from 100 to 1000 km
    Thang H. Tran, Yoshihiro Baba, Vladimir A. Rakov
    16:30P-08-07: Observation and Prediction of Damaging Winds by a High Dense Ground Surface Observation Network (POTEKA)
    Hisato Iwashita, Toshiaki Morita, Koji Shibata, Fumiaki Kobayashi
    16:30P-08-08: Electric field measurements of atmospheric discharges: on-board and ground based instruments developed in frame of CNES TARANIS space mission
    Elena Seran, Michel Godefroy
    16:30P-08-09: Optimizing Clustering and Filtering Techniques to Produce Better Lightning Datasets from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper
    Douglas Michael Mach, Monte Bateman
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    P-08-10: Acoustic Observation of Lightning Attachment to Wind Turbine
    Jinxin Cao, Jianguo Wang, Hui Qin, Jianguo Dai, Rui Su, Li Cai
    16:30P-08-11: A method of measuring thunderstorm electric field by using a pair of wire-attached electrodes and LMA
    Jumpei Kurachi, Daohong Wang, Ting Wu, Nobuyuki Takagi
    16:30P-08-12: Creation Storm Ring automatic meteorological system and first obtained results on its basis
    Konstantin Nikolaevich Pustovalov, Alexey Anatolevich Kobzev, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Korolkov, Peter Mikhailovich Nagorskiy, Alexey Evgenyevich Tel’minov
    WithdrawnP-08-13: A 3D lightning mapping system operated simultaneously at LF and VHF bands
    Yoshihiro Shima, Takashi Sugiura, Nobuyuki Takagi, Ting Wu, Daohong Wang
    16:30P-08-14: Radio Frequency Interferometer with Small Base as a Lightning Mapping Array for Close Lightning Studying
    Anatoly N. Karashtin, Yuri V. Shlyugaev, Aleksey A. Bulatov, Olga S. Karashtina, Fedor A. Kuterin, Petr A. Mikryukov
    16:30P-08-15: The Design of a Sounding System with Electrical Field and Precipitation Particles in thunderstorm
    Hai Yu, Tinglong Zhang, Fangcong Zhou, Jie Chen
    16:30P-08-16: Influence of Detection Efficiency of Lightning Locating System on Ground Lightning Current Distribution in Guangxi
    Xia Xuezhi, Li Han, Yu Jianhui, Zhou Wenjun, Xiong Zehao
    16:30P-08-17: GLM - ENTLN Comparison and Fusion
    Jeff Lapierre, Michael Stock, Saiadithya Cumbulam Thangaraj
    16:30P-08-18: Using Lightning Cell Characteristics to generate Earth Network Dangerous Thunder Storm Alerts (DTA)
    Saiadithya Cumbulam Thangaraj, Michael Stock, Jeff L. Lapierre, Mark Hoekzema
    16:30P-08-19: Locating narrow bipolar events with low-frequency magnetic field measurement
    Hongbo Zhang, Gaopeng Lu, Xiushu Qie, Rubin Jiang, Mingyuan Liu, Zhixiong Chen
    16:30P-08-20: VHF electromagnetic radiation from thunderclouds generated by continuing current
    Masahito Shimizu, Kodai Nagata, Fukumune Suzuki, Hiroki Tsuji, Megumu Miki, Takeshi Morimoto
    16:30P-08-21: Analysis of the initiation phase in negative lightning flashes exhibiting an intense return stroke peak current
    Stephane Pedeboy, Eric Defer, Ivana Kolmasova, S. Coquillat, P. De Guibert, D. Lambert, J.-P. Pinty, S. Prieur, Ondrej Santolik, Radek Lan, Ludek Uhlir
    16:30P-08-22: Lightning early warning systems based on ground-based field mill network
    Takeshi Kudo, Masashi Kamogawa
    16:30P-08-23: A lightning location system in Zhanhua of China
    Mingyuan Liu, Xiushu Qie, Rubin Jiang, Zhuling Sun, Zilong Ma, Tianxue Zheng
    16:30P-08-24: Lightning characteristics with charge moment change over eastern part of Japan by ELF and LLS observations
    Yasuhide Hobara, Junpei Yamashita, Ryo Murai, Tomomi Narita, Hiroaki Mitsuzuka
    16:30P-08-25: Recent improvements in the Earth Networks Lightning Network
    Saiadithya Cumbulam Thangaraj, Michael Stock, Jeff Lapierre
    WithdrawnP-08-26: New methods and algorithms for automatic identification of atmospheric discharges based on continuous measurements of electric fields in the VLF band
    Zenon Nieckarz, Piotr Baraski, Rafa Iwaski, Jerzy Kubisz, Micha Ostrowski
    16:30P-08-27: Lightning Distance Estimation Using LF Lightning Radio Signals Via Machine-Learned Models
    Andre Lucas Antunes de Sa, Robert Andrew Marshall


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    18:30 Banquet



    Friday, 22 June


    08:45 (Friday) Keynote Lecture 04: Energetic Radiation

    Chairs: Serge Soula and Mitsuteru Sato
    08:45O-K-04: Energetic Radiation in Thunderstorms and Lightning
    David Smith

    09:15 (Friday) Oral 10: Lightning Effects on the Middle and Upper Atmosphere

    Chairs: Serge Soula and Mitsuteru Sato
    09:15O-10-01: On the polarity and magnitude of parent strokes for red sprites and halo events observed in the vicinity of North America
    Gaopeng Lu, Bingkun Yu, Anjing Huang, Steven A. Cummer, Alfred B. Chen, Fei Liu, Rue-Ron Hsu, Han-Tzong Su
    09:30O-10-02: Evolution of Gigantic Jets at high temporal and spatial resolution
    Oscar A. van der Velde, Joan Montanya, Jesus A. Lopez
    WithdrawnO-10-03: The characteristics parameters of F2 layer of Ionosphere over a local thunderstorm systems in Yunnan, China
    Xiangzhen Kong, Jin Wang, Yang Zhao, Xiaoqi Xin, Yiran Xie
    10:00O-10-04: Characteristics of thunderstorm structure and lightning activity causing negative and positive sprites
    Jing Yang, Ningyu Liu, Mitsuteru Sato, Gaopeng Lu, Yu Wang, Guili Feng

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    11:00 (Friday) Oral 11: Energetic Radiation from Lightning and Thunderstorms

    Chairs: David Smith and Teruaki Enoto
    11:00O-11-01: Reconsidering the friction curve for cold electron runaway
    Gabriel Sousa Diniz, Casper Rutjes, Ute Ebert, Ivan Soares Ferreira
    11:15O-11-02: Calculations of energy spectra of electrons and gamma rays coming from thunderclouds
    Levon Vanyan, Ashot Chilingaryan, Hripsime Mkrtchyan
    11:30O-11-03: Is the physical mechanism of thunderstorm-generated long-burst gamma-ray explained by relativistic runaway electron avalanche or modulation of spectrum hypotheses?
    Masashi Kamogawa, Tatsuo Torii, David Smith, Gregory Bowers
    11:45O-11-04: Radio-frequency emissions from streamer collisions: implications for high-energy processes
    Alejandro Luque
    12:00O-11-05: X-Ray Radiation in High-Voltage Discharges in the Open Air
    Yu.V. Shlyugaev, F.A Kuterin, E.K. Svechnikova, V.A. Rakov, V.S. Sysoev
    12:15O-11-06: Ground-Based Observations of Terrestrial Gamma Flashes Associated with Downward-Directed Lightning Leaders
    John W. Belz, Rasha Abbasi, Paul R Krehbiel, Ryan LeVon, Jackson Remington, Daniel Rodeheffer, William Rison, Ronald J Thomas
    12:30O-11-07: Multi-point Measurement Campaigns of Gamma Rays from Thunderclouds and Lightning in Japan
    Teruaki Enoto, Yuuki Wada, Yoshihiro Furuta, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Takayuki Yuasa, Kazufumi Okuda, Kazuo Makishima, Mitsuteru Sato, Yousuke Sato, Toshio Nakano, Daigo Umemoto, Harufumi Tsuchiya, Masashi Kamogawa, Gregory Bowers, David Smith, Takeshi Morimoto, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Daohong Wang
    12:45O-11-08: Insights from the Connection Between In-Cloud Lightning and Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
    Steven A. Cummer, Fanchao Lyu, Michael S. Briggs, Eric Cramer, Matthew Stanbro, Oliver Roberts, David M. Smith
    13:00O-11-09: Understanding the global TGF/lightning ratio asymmetry
    Ferran Fabro, Joan Montanya, Oscar van der Velde, Earle Williams

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    14:30 (Friday) Posters-9,10&11: Met. Applications, Lightning Climatology and Chem. Effects, Lightning Effects on the Middle and Upper Atmosphere, Energetic Radiation

    Chair: Hiroshi Kikuchi
    14:30P-09-01: Lightning warning method and characteristic of lightning electricfield in Huangshan Mountain scenic area
    Wang Kai, Zhu Hao, Cheng Xiang-yang
    14:30P-09-02: Development of Lightning Observation Network in the Western Pacific Region for the Intensity Prediction of Severe Weather and Tropical Cyclone
    Mitsuteru Sato, Yukihiro Takahashi, Hisayuki Kubota, Kozo Yamashita, Junichi Hamada, Joel J. Marciano
    WithdrawnP-09-03: Evaluation of thunderstorm warnings in Belgium
    Dieter Roel Poelman, Laurent Delobbe, Pascal Mailier, Fabian Debal
    14:30P-09-04: Study of the seismic static electricity precursor anomaly information based on Lightning observation
    Xiaobing Jin, Liang Zhang, Li Ma, Junwei Bu
    WithdrawnP-09-05: Ground Lightning enhancement associated with topography in Baishe area, China
    Han Li
    14:30P-09-06: AeroRayos Project
    M. Gabriela Nicora, Juan Lucas Bali, Nicolas Rivaben, Eldo E. Avila, Maximiliano Sacco, Pablo Martin Vasquez, Raul D´Elia, Alejandro Acquesta
    14:30P-09-07: Study of the Atmospheric Electrical Activity through Lightning Jump in the central Argentina
    Constanza I. Villagran Asiares, M. Gabriela Nicora, Juan Lucas Bali, Eldo E. Avila
    14:30P-09-08: Real-time Monitoring of 2017 Tropical Cyclones with Lightning: Storm Intensification and Reconstructed Microwave Imagery
    Natalia N. Solorzano, Jeremy N. Thomas, Connor Bracy
    14:30P-09-09: Feasibility Study of Weather Information for Aircraft Lightning Avoidance
    Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, Hiroshi Oikawa, Atsushi Senoguchi, Masashi Kamogawa
    14:30P-09-10: Thunderstorm patterns that may be useful to warn about lightning threats to wind turbines and other tall structures
    Albert Salvador, Nicolau Pineda, Joan Montanya, Gloria Sola, Oscar van der Velde
    14:30P-09-11: Statistical study of the relationship between total lightning and heavy rainfall
    Tetsuya Ogawa, Yasuhide Hobara, Hiroyuki Iwasaki, Stan Heckman, Michael Stock
    14:30P-09-12: A comparative study of lightning characteristics over the Tibetan Plateau and the Arabian Sea
    Adarsh Kumar Kamra, P. Ramesh Kumar
    14:30P-09-13: A Climatology of Total Lightning Flashes Mapped by the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array 2003-2012
    Donald R. MacGorman, Stephanie Weiss, Eric Bruning, Vanna Chmielewski
    14:30P-09-14: Contribution of Tropical Cyclone to Lightning Climatology over the Northwest Pacific
    Wenjuan Zhang, Yijun Zhang, Dong Zheng, Weitao Lyu
    14:30P-09-15: Higher Resolution Lightning Climatology in South America based on STARNET measurements
    Carlos A. Morales
    14:30P-09-16: Global Lightning Climatology
    Robert H Holzworth, Katrina S. Virts
    14:30P-10-01: Chemical impact and optical signatures of halos and elves triggered by CG and IC lightning discharges
    Francisco J. Perez-Invernon, Alejandro Luque, Francisco J. Gordillo-Vazquez
    14:30P-10-02: A Ray-Theory-based Earth-Ionosphere Waveguide Model for Lightning Sferic Study and its Comparison with the Full-wave Finite Difference Time Domain Model
    Zilong Qin, Mingli Chen, Steven A. Cummer, Ya-ping Du, Fanchao Lu
    14:30P-10-03: Sprite possibly produced by two distinct positive cloud-to-ground lightning flashes
    Jing Yang, Gaopeng Lu, Ningyu Liu, Mitsuteru Sato, Guili Feng, Yu Wang, Jung-Kuang Chou
    14:30P-10-04: Analysis of a Mesoscale Convective System that Produced a Single Sprite
    Jing Yang, Gaopeng Lu, Ningyu Liu, Haihua Cui, Yu Wang, Morris Cohen
    14:30P-10-05: Observations of red sprites from space in the vicinity of lightning mapping networks
    Gaopeng Lu, Anjing Huang, Feifan Liu, Steven A. Cummer, Fanchao Lyu, Alfred B. Chen
    14:30P-10-06: Horizontal distance between winter sprites and cloud-to-ground lightning
    Tomoyuki Suzuki, Masashi Kamogawa, Terunori Miyoshi, Yuzaburo Takamura, Tsutomu Minami, Masayuki Yamamoto, Kenichi Kusunoki
    14:30P-10-07: When do summer sprites occur during the evolution of storm system?
    Tomoyuki Suzuki, Masashi Kamogawa, Kenichi Kusunoki
    14:30P-10-08: How did the summer storm system produce gigantic jets in Japan?
    Tomoyuki Suzuki, Masashi Kamogawa
    14:30P-10-09: Ionospheric responses to thunderstorm in the Indonesian sector of the Asian Equatorial/low latitude Region
    Babalola Olasupo Ogunsua, Xiushu Qie, Jianchun Bian, Srivastava Abhay, Dongfang Wang
    14:30P-10-10: Detailed analysis of two cases of dancing sprites
    Serge Soula, Janusz Mlynarczyk, Martin Fullekrug, Nicolau Pineda, Jean-Francois Georgis, Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanya, Ferran Fabro
    14:30P-10-11: Studying TLEs using a massive all-sky camera network designed to detect meteors
    Matthieu B. Garnung, Sebastien Celestin, Francois Colas, Chiara Marmo, Brigitte Zanda, Sylvain Bouley
    14:30P-11-01: Investigating Radio Emissions Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes using NLDN, GLD360 and Fermi-GBM
    Bagrat Mailyan, Amitabh Nag, Martin Murphy, Ryan K. Said, Michael S. Briggs, Joseph R. Dwyer, Eric Cramer, Oliver J. Roberts, Matthew Stanbro, Hamid K. Rassoul, Naomi Watanabe
    14:30P-11-02: Peak power and electromagnetic field of the cloud-to-ground lightning core current channel
    Guorong Liu, Ping Yuan, Jianyong Cen, Xuejuan Wang, Tingting An
    14:30P-11-03: Thunderstorm Ground Enhancement (TGE) and Cloud Electrification
    Ashot A. Chilingarian
    14:30P-11-04: Broadband RF interferometric and polarization observations of lightning discharges correlated with gamma flux detection
    Xuan-Min Shao, Cheng Ho, Gregory Bowers, William Blaine, Brenda Dingus, Michael Caffrey, Paul Graham, Brian Haynes, David Smith, Michael Schneider, HAWC collaboration
    14:30P-11-05: ULF electromagnetic field in the upper ionosphere excited by lightning
    Vyacheslav A. Pilipenko, Evgeniy N. Fedorov, Nikolay G. Mazur
    14:30P-11-06: Improved scattering cross-sections for particle models of high-energy emissions from lightning
    Anthony Schmalzried, Alejandro Luque
    WithdrawnP-11-07: The possible detection of high-energy photons from ball lightning by the GROWTH experiment
    Mikhail L. Shmatov
    WithdrawnP-11-08: Initial acceleration of electrons of some ball lightning and TGFs with a hard spectrum
    Mikhail L. Shmatov
    14:30P-11-09: Implications of a Multi-pulse, Downward Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash from a Winter Thunderstorm in Japan
    David M Smith, Gregory S. Bowers, Masashi Kamogawa, Michael Stock, Zen Kawasaki, Yasuhide Hobara, Tomoo Ushio, Daohong Wang, Stan Heckman, Steven A. Cummer, XuanMin Shao, Joseph R. Dwyer
    14:30P-11-10: Simulation of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory & Gamma-ray Observations During Overhead Thunderstorms (GODOT) Instrument Response to Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanche (RREA) Gamma-ray Enhancements
    Gregory Bowers, William Blaine, Xuan-Min Shao, Brenda Dingus, Michael McCarthy, David Smith, Michael Schneider, HAWC Collaboration
    14:30P-11-11: The Light and Fast TGF Recorder
    John Sample, David Smith
    14:30P-11-12: Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs) Measurements in Southern China and Southeast Asia
    Hongbo Zhang, Gaopeng Lu, Fanchao Lyu, Xiushu Qie
    14:30P-11-13: Electron Acceleration Mechanisms in Streamers and Leaders
    Andy Martinez Nieto, Casper Rutjes, Ute Ebert
    14:30P-11-14: High-energy events in the atmosphere and their relationship to the electrical structure of the cloud
    Ekaterina Konstantinovna Svechnikova, Nikolay Vladimirovich Ilin, Evgeny Anatol'evich Mareev, Ashot Chilingarian
    14:30P-11-15: Simultaneous X-ray and microwave emissions from natural lightning and in high voltage laboratory sparks
    Joan Montanya, Michele Urbani, Ferran Fabro, Oscar van der Velde, Jesus A. Lopez, Victor March
    14:30P-11-16: Geomagnetic effects on the beaming geometry of TGFs
    Sebastien Celestin

    16:00 Break



    16:30 Closing Ceremony