本年の大気電気学セッションは，大気電気学分野の中でも中核をなす，雷放電現象と，雷放電に関連した各種物理現象に焦点をあてつつ防災分野への応用を見据えた研究成果を募集します。本セッションは，大気電気学分野における第一人者から本分野の最新の研究成果を紹介する発表と，当該分野における最新の観測的，理論的研究成果および将来の防災技術への応用を見据えた発表で構成される予定です．例えば，雷放電物理，高エネルギー現象，気象・気候シミュレーション，雷観測技術，積乱雲に関する研究をはじめ，大気電気学に関する全てのトピックも歓迎します。 例えば，大気イオン・エアロゾル関連など大気中の電磁気現象や電離圏や磁気圏における電波伝搬を含む地球周辺電磁環境に関連するすべての研究を対象とします。 

The session will focus on lightning discharge phenomena and various physical phenomena related to lightning discharges, which are one of the core fields of atmospheric electricity, and will call for research results with their application to disaster prevention. This session will consist of invited presentations introducing above-mentioned fields by leading experts, and contributed presentations on the latest observational and theoretical research results in these fields. For example, we welcome lightning physics, lightning observation technology, electrical effects of thunderstorms, and lightning related phenomena such as the mesospheric transient luminous events, and lightning-related high-energy phenomena that have been actively studied in recent years. We certainly welcome papers regarding all topics on atmospheric electricity including global electric circuit, ion and fair weather electricity, lightning protection, terrestrial electromagnetic noise environment including wave propagation in the magnetosphere and ionosphere.