ICAE International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity


ICAE 2003 Versailles

General Information

Accommodation

Author's Kit
and Poster Format

Program,
Abstracts
and Proceedings

Links to Proceedings

Index to Authors

 

ICAE 2003 Program
(likely to be updated)

 

Sunday 8

Welcome
   

Monday 9

Electrical Activity and Meteorology
   
Tuesday 10 Storm Electrification
   
Wednesday 11 Fair Weather Electricity
Middle Atmosphere Electrical Events
Lightning Protection
   
Thursday 12
(bellow)
Physics of Lightning
   
Friday 13 Global Lightning and Climate
Global Electrical Circuit

 

Thursday 12th June

 
 

Top Week Schedule

 

8:30

Session C1 Physics of Lightning I

   
8:30 N L Aleksandrov, E M Bazelyan and Y P Raizer
keynote: Initiation and Development of Lightning Discharge: Physical Mechanism and Problems
Abstract
   
9:00

N. S. Khaerdinov, A. S. Lidvansky, and V. B. Petkov
Effect of the Electric Field of thunderclouds on Cosmic Rays and evidence for pre-lightning acceleration of electrons
Abstract

   
9:30 A. Larsson, A. Delannoy and P. Lalande
The voltage gradient along a lightning channel during strikes to aircraft
Abstract
   
9:45 J-P. Pinty, G. Molinié, C. Barthe, and F. Roux
A semi-deterministic scheme to produce IC/CG lightnings in a 3D cloud resolving model
Abstract
   
10:00 W. Rison, P. Krehbiel, R. Thomas, T. Hamlin, and J. Harlin
Lightning Mapping and Radar Observations of Bolts from the Blue
Abstract
   
10:15 J. C. Willett, Garrett Park, D. M. Le Vine
Lightning Return-Stroke Current Waveforms Aloft, From Measured Field Change, Current, and Channel Geometry
Abstract

10:30 Coffee Break
   
  Top Week Schedule

10:30

Session C2 Physics of Lightning II

   
11:00 V. Kodali, V. A. Rakov, M. A. Uman, K. J. Rambo, G. H. Schnetzer, J. Schoene, and D. E. Crawford
Lightning Properties Inferred from Measurements of Very Close Electric Fields
Abstract
   
11:15

M. Miki, T. Shindo, V. A. Rakov, M. A. Uman, K. J. Rambo, G. H. Schnetzer, G. Diendorfer, M. Mair, F. Heidler, W. Zischank, and R. Thotappillil
Characterization of pulses superimposed on the initial continuous current of upward lightning
Abstract

   
11:30 O. Pinto Jr., I. R. C. A. Pinto, and M. M. F.Saba
Lightning research in Brazil: recent results on Direct Measurements
Abstract
   
11:45 M. A. Stanley, A. R. Jacobson, and X-M. Shao
The VHF Power Spectrum of Lightning
Abstract

12:15 Lunch
   
 

Top Week Schedule


14:00

Session C3 Physics of Lightning III (poster)

   
  M. P. Boussaton, S. Coquillat, and S. Chauzy
Influence of Water Conductivity on microdischarges from raindrops in strong electric fields
Abstract
   
  Mingli Chen, Yaping Du, John Burnett, and Wansheng Dong
The Electromagnetic Radiation from Lightning in the Interval of 5 kHz to 60 MHz
Abstract
   
 

V. Cooray
The effect of corona space charge layer at ground level below thunderclouds on peak return stroke currents
Abstract

   
  P. H. Handel, M. Grace, J. F.Leitner, A. B. Timofeev, and A. V. Zvonkov
Ball lightning Discharge Fed by an Atmospheric Maser
Abstract
   
  M. Kamogawa, H. Ofuruton, H. Tanaka, and Y-H. Ohtsuki
Study of ball lightning generated by electromagnetic wave localization
Abstract
   
  Z. Kawasaki and T. Morimoto
Bi-directional leader concept and VHF observations
Abstract
   
  V. Mazur and L.H. Runhke
Determining Leader Potential in Cloud-to-Ground Flashes
Abstract
   
  M. Nakano, S. Sumi, and K. Miura
The polarity effect of the production of nitrogen oxides by a long spark
Abstract
   
  Nguyen Manh Duc
On some physical processes of lightning discharge in a thundercloud
Abstract
   
  M. Petitdidier and P. Laroche
Lightning observations at UHF and VHF with wind-profiler radars in Puerto Rico
Abstract
   
  V. A. Rakov, M. A. Uman, and K. J. Rambo
A Review of Ten Years of Triggered-Lightning Experiments at Camp Blanding, Florida
Abstract
   
  M. M. F. Saba, N. N. Solórzano, O. Pinto Jr., and A. Eybert-Berard
Characteristics of triggered lightning flashes observed in Brazil
Abstract
   
  J. Schoene, M. A. Uman, V. A. Rakov, K. J. Rambo, J. Jerauld, V. Kodali, and G. H. Schnetzer
Triggered Lightning Electric and Magnetic Fields at 15 and 30 m: Measurements and Implications for Return Stroke Modeling
Abstract
   
  N. N. Solórzano, M. M. F. Saba, O. Pinto Jr., and A.. Eybert-Berard
Comparisons between triggered and natural lightning observed in Brazil
Abstract
   
  X-M. Shao, A. Jacobson and T.J. Fitzgerald
VHF radiation beam pattern of return strokes
Abstract
   
  V. D. Stepanenko and S. M. Galperin
About of possibility formation lightning electromagnetic re-emission by several form of clouds
Abstract
   
A. G. Temnikov
Dynamics of electric field formation inside the artificially charged aerosol cloud and in a space near its boundaries
Abstract
   
A. G. Temnikov, I. P. Vereshchagin, A. V. Orlov, and M. V. Sokolova
Investigation of the main stage of a discharge between an artificially charged water aerosol cloud and a grounded electrode
Abstract
   
A. Wada, A. Asakawa, T. Shindo, and S. Yokoyama
Leader and return stroke speed of upward-initiated lightning
Abstract
   
D. Wang, N. Takagi, T. Watanabe, V. A. Rakov, M. A. Uman, K. J. Rambo, and M. V. Stapleton
A Comparison of Channel-Base Currents and Optical Signals for Rocket-Triggered Lightning Strokes
Abstract
   
Dong Wansheng, Zhang Yijun, and Liu Xinsheng
The Broadband Interferometer Observations of Lightning in Tibet
Abstract
   
Ping Yuan, Xinsheng Liu, and Yijun Zhang
Spectral properties of lightning return stroke
Abstract
   
Y. Zhou, X. Qie, M. Yan, and G. Zhang
Ground observation of NOx generated by lightning in thunderstorm weather
Abstract
 

Top Week Schedule


16:00

Session C4 Physics of Lightning IV (poster)

   
  G. Baffou, E. P. Krider, N. D. Murray, and J. C. Willett
dE/dt and E waveforms radiated by leader steps just before the onset of first return strokes striking seawater
Abstract
   
 

W. H. Beasley, C. M. M. Noble, T. E. Light, D. M. Suszcynsky, and B. C. Edgar
Coincident Observations of lightning by Ground-Based and Satellite-Borne Location and Mapping Systems: inferences for Lightning Physics
Abstract

   
  A-L.Brasseur, P.Laroche, C.Thèry
A New Lightning NOx Production Parameterization
Abstract
   
  E. Defer, P. Laroche , J. E. Dye a, and W. Skamarock.
Use of total lightning lengths to estimate NOx Production in a Colorado Storm
Abstract
   
A. K. Erickson, P. R. Krehbiel, and W. K. Hocking
Three-Dimensional Imaging of Lightning Channels using a 35 MHz Interferometric Radar: Preliminary Results
Abstract
   
  T. Fehr and N. Dotzek
Lightning Activity and Bulk Microphysical Properties
Abstract
   
  L. Grcev, F. Rachidi, and V. Rakov
Comparison of Electromagnetic Models of the Lightning Return Stroke Using Current and Voltage Sources
Abstract
   
  J. Harlin, T. Hamlin, P. Krehbiel, R. Thomas, and W. Rison
Using the NMIMT LMA to Determine Which Model of Lightning Initiation Fits Best with Measured Results
Abstract
   
  M. J. Heavner, D. M. Suszcynsky, and D. A Smith
LF/VLF Intracloud Waveform Classification
Abstract
   
  D. I. Iudin, V. Y. Trakhtengerts, A. Grigoryev, and M. Hayakawa
Electric charge fractal transport and electromagnetic high frequency radiation on the lightning discharge preliminary stage
Abstract
   
  J. Jerauld, M. A. Uman, V. A. Rakov, K. J. Rambo, D. M. Jordan, and G. H. Schnetzer
Multiple-Station Measurements of Close Electric and Magnetic Fields and Field Derivatives from Natural Lightning
Abstract
   
  W. J. Koshak, R. J. Solakiewicz, R. J. Blakeslee, S. J. Goodman, D. J. Boccippio, H. J. Christian, J. M. Hall, J. C. Bailey, M. G. Bateman, D. M. Mach, E. W. McCaul, M. F. Stewart, D. E. Buechler, and W. A. Petersen
Error Analyses of the North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array (LMA)
Abstract
   
  A. K. Kamra and S. D. Pawar
Recovery curves of the lightning discharges initiated from the lower positive charge pocket in thunderstorm
Abstract
   
  P. Lalande, P. Blanchet, P. Laroche, S. Laik, S. Luque, J.-A. Rouquette, H. Poirot, P.-N. Gineste, F. Hoeppe, A. Ulmann, and P. Dimnet
ALISDAR: an Automatic Lightning System Detection and Recording
Abstract
   
  O. Mendes Jr., M. O. Domingues, E. E. N. Macau, and A. P. dos Santos
Studies on lightning flashes by using fractal analyses and methods of geometrical statistics
Abstract
   
  O. Mendes Jr., M. O. Domingues, J. C. Thomaz, and D. F. da Silva
Analysis of some lightning features based on the numerical stepped leader path simulation
Abstract
   
  F. J. de Miranda, O. Pinto Jr., and M. M. F. Saba
Advances in electric field and light measurements of lightning in Brazil
Abstract
   
  J. Montanyà, J. Bergas, and B. Hermoso
Ceptrum application to electrostatic field on lightning prediction
Abstract
   
  N. D. Murray, E. P. Krider, and J. C. Willett
Multiple Pulses in the Electric Field Derivative, dE/dt, During the Onset of First Return Strokes in Lightning Striking
Abstract
   
W. Rison, W. P. Winn, and S. J. Hunyady
Initial Results from a Compact, High Time Resolution, Lightning Mapping System
Abstract
   
M. A. Stanley and M. J. Heavner
Tall structure lightning induced by sprite-producing discharges
Abstract
   
T. Suzuki, T. Shimura, and K. Michimoto
Design of Lightning Flash Observation and Ranging System
Abstract
   
R. Thomas, P. Krehbiel, W. Rison, T. Harlin, J. Hamlin and N. Campbell
The LMA Flash Algorithm
Abstract
   
T. J. Tuomi
IMPACT-SAFIR comparisons in Finland
Abstract
   
Y. Zhang, P. Krehbiel, T. Hamlin, J. Harlin, R. Thomas, and W. Rison
Observations of radiations from airplane during STEPS
Abstract

18:00 End of Session
   
 

Top Week Schedule


Last Update : May 21, 2003
[ ICAE Home Page] - [ ICAE Contacts ]