Session outline
 
Space and Planetary Sciences(P)
Session Sub Category Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Space Electromagnetism & Space Environment(EM)
Session ID P-EM07
Title Lightning and TLEs and their effects on the lower and middle atmosphere
Short title Lightning and TLEs
Convener Name Mitsuteru Sato
Affiliation Department of Cosmoscience,
Hokkaido University
Email msato@ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Co-convener 1. Name Toru Adachi
Affiliation Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Email t.adachi@aoni.waseda.jp
Co-convener 2. Name Tomoo Ushio
Affiliation Information and communication engineering department, Osaka University
Email ushio@comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
Co-convener 3. Name Yukihiro Takahashi
Affiliation Department of Cosmosciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
Email yukihiro@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
International Symposium 'International Symposium' in addition to Scientific session.
Language English
Scope Lightning is the energetic phenomena of electrical breakdown, occurring after charge separation processes operating on micro and macro-scales, leading to strong electric fields within thunderstorms. Lightning has severe impact on the lower and middle atmoephere and can excite transient luminous events (TLEs) occurring at the stratosphere and mesosphere. In addition to this, lightning is always associated with severe weather and tropical storms like typhoons and hurricanes, often accompanied by torrential rains and flash floods. It has significant chemical and physical effects on the troposphere and mesosphere and drives the fair-weather electric field. In this session, new results derived from the recent satellite observations of lightning and TLEs (JEM-GLIMS mission) will be presented. This session also seeks contributions on the meteorology of thunderstorms, the detection of thunderstorms from space and ground networks, using lightning data as proxy for severe weather, the climatic effects of thunderstorms and their impact on the global circuit.
Type of presentation Oral and Poster presentation
Invited papers