Associations between Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor terrestrial gamma ray flashes and sferics from the World Wide Lightning Location Network

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Connaughton, V ^a   Briggs, M S ^a   Holzworth, R H ^b   Hutchins, M L ^b   Fishman, G J ^c   Wilson Hodge, C A ^c   Chaplin, V L ^a   Bhat, P N ^a   Greiner, J ^d   Von Kienlin, A ^d   Kippen, R M ^e   Meegan, C A ^f   Paciesas, W S ^a,g   Preece, R D ^a,g   Cramer, E ^h   Dwyer, J R ^h   Smith, D M ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^h FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650016679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA015681     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Briggs, M. S., et al. (2010), First results on terrestrial gamma ray flashes from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A07323, doi:10.1029/2009JA015242.
2. Carlson, B. E., N. G. Lehtinen, and U. S. Inan (2009a), Terrestrial gamma ray flash production by lightning current pulses, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A00E08, doi:10.1029/2009JA014531.
3. Carlson, B. E., N. G. Lehtinen, and U. S. Inan (2009b), Observations of terrestrial gamma-ray flash electrons, in Coupling of Thunderstorms and Lightning Discharges to Near-Earth Space, edited by N. B. Crosby, T.-Y. Huang, and M. J. Rycroft, AIP Conf. Proc., 1118, 84-91.
4. Cohen, M. B., U. S. Inan, and G. Fishman (2006), Terrestrial gamma ray flashes observed aboard the Compton gamma ray observatory/burst and transient source experiment and ELV/VLF radio atmospherics, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D24109, doi:10.1029/2005JD006987. (Pubitemid 47260779)
5. Cohen, M. B., U. S. Inan, R. K. Said, and T. Gjestland (2010), Geolocation of terrestrial gamma-ray flash source lightning, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L02801, doi:10.1029/2009GL041753.
6. Cummer, S. A., Y. Zhai, W. Hu, D. M. Smith, L. I. Lopez, and M. A. Stanley (2005), Measurements and implications of the relationship between lightning and terrestrial gamma ray flashes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L08811, doi:10.1029/2005GL022778. (Pubitemid 41043293)
7. de Hoon, M., S. Imoto, and S. Miyano (2005), The c clustering library, Inst. of Medical Sci., Human Genome Cent., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo.
8. Dwyer, J. R. (2008), Source mechanisms of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D10103, doi:10.1029/2007JD009248.
9. Dwyer, J. R., and D. M. Smith (2005), A comparison between Monte Carlo simulations of runaway breakdown and terrestrial gamma-ray flash, observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L22804, doi:10.1029/2005GL023848. (Pubitemid 43092286)
10. Dwyer, J. R., B. W. Grefenstette, and D. M. Smith (2008), High-energy electron beams launched into space by thunderstorms, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02815, doi:10.1029/2007GL032430. (Pubitemid 351392202)
11. Dwyer, J. R., D. M. Smith, M. A. Uman, Z. Saleh, B. Grefenstette, B. Hazelton, and H. K. Rassoul (2010), Estimation of the fluence of high-energy electron bursts produced by thunderclouds and the resulting radiation doses received in aircraft, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D09206, doi:10.1029/2009JD012039.
12. Fishman, G. J., et al. (1994), Discovery of intense gamma-ray flashes of atmospheric origin, Science, 264, 1313-1316, doi:10.1126/science.264.5163.1313.
13. Grefenstette, B. W., D. M. Smith, B. J. Hazelton, and L. I. Lopez (2009), First RHESSI terrestrial gamma ray flash catalog, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A02314, doi:10.1029/2008JA013721.
14. Hazelton, B. J., B. W. Grefenstette, D. M. Smith, J. R. Dwyer, X.-M. Shao, S. A. Cummer, T. Chronis, E. H. Lay, and R. H. Holzworth (2009), Spectral dependence of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes on source distance, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L01108, doi:10.1029/2008GL035906.
15. Inan, U. S., and N. G. Lehtinen (2005), Production of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes by an electromagnetic pulse from a lightning return stroke, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L19818, doi:10.1029/2005GL023702. (Pubitemid 41694290)
16. Inan, U. S., S. C. Reising, G. J. Fishman, and J. M. Horack (1996), On the association of terrestrial gamma-ray bursts with lightning and implications for sprites, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1017-1020, doi:10.1029/96GL00746.
17. Inan, U. S., M. B. Cohen, R. K. Said, D. M. Smith, and L. I. Lopez (2006), Terrestrial gamma ray flashes and lightning discharges, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18802, doi:10.1029/2006GL027085. (Pubitemid 351147933)
18. Jacobson, A. R., R. Holzworth, J. Harlin, R. Dowden, and E. Lay (2006), Performance assessment of the world wide lightning location network (WWLLN), using the los Alamos sferic array (LASA) as ground truth, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 23, 1082-1092, doi:10.1175/JTECH1902.1. (Pubitemid 44288556)
19. Lay, E. H. (2008), Investigating lightning-to-ionosphere energy coupling based on VLF lightning propagation characterization, Ph. D. thesis, Univ. of Wash., Seattle.
20. Lehtinen, N. G., U. S. Inan, and T. F. Bell (2001), Effects of thunderstormdriven runaway electrons in the conjugate hemisphere: Purple sprites, ionization enhancements, and gamma rays, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 28, 841-28, 856, doi:10.1029/2000JA000160.
21. Lu, G., R. J. Blakeslee, J. Li, D. M. Smith, X.-M. Shao, E. W. McCaul, D. E. Buechler, H. J. Christian, J. M. Hall, and S. A. Cummer (2010), Lightning mapping observation of a terrestrial gamma-ray flash, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L11806, doi:10.1029/2010GL043494.
22. Meegan, C. A., et al. (2009), The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, Astrophys. J, 702, 791-804, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/702/1/791.
23. Rodger, C. J., J. B. Brundell, R. H. Holzworth, and E. H. Lay (2009), Growing detection efficiency of the world wide lightning location network, in Coupling of Thunderstorms and Lightning Discharges to Near-Earth Space, edited by N. B. Crosby, T.-Y. Huang, and M. J. Rycroft, AIP Conf. Proc., 1118, 15-20.
24. Shao, X.-M., T. Hamlin, and D. M. Smith (2010), A closer examination of terrestrial gamma-ray flash-related lightning processes, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A00E30, doi:10.1029/2009JA014835.
25. Splitt, M. E., S. M. Lazarus, D. Barnes, J. R. Dwyer, H. K. Rassoul, D. M. Smith, B. Hazelton, and B. Grefenstette (2010), Thunderstorm characteristics associated with RHESSI identified terrestrial gamma ray flashes, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A00E38, doi:10.1029/2009JA014622.
26. Stanley, M. A., X.-M. Shao, D. M. Smith, L. I. Lopez, M. B. Pongratz, J. D. Harlin, M. Stock, and A. Regan (2006), A link between terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and intracloud lightning discharges, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L06803, doi:10.1029/2005GL025537.
27. Williams, E., et al. (2006), Lightning flashes conducive to the production and escape of gamma radiation to space, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D16209, doi:10.1029/2005JD006447. (Pubitemid 46290738)