HR: 0800h
AN: AE31B-0166    [Abstracts]
TI: Ground based ISUAL validation with the Los Alamos Sferic Array
AU: * Heavner, M J
EM: matt.heavner@uas.alaska.edu
AF: Dept. of Natural Sciences, University of Alaska Southeast, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99801 United States
AU: Boeck, W L
EM: boeck@niagara.edu
AF: CIS Department, Niagara University, Niagara University, NY 14109 United States
AU: Shao, X
EM: xshao@lanl.gov
AF: ISR-2, Space and Remote Sensing, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-2, MS D436, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Frey, H U
EM: hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AU: Mende, S B
EM: mende@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AB: The Los Alamos Sferic Array (LASA) is an array of fast electric field change meters which has been used for validation studies of satellite lightning observations. The array was established to support the FORTE satellite (with both radio and optical sensors), and therefore the LASA/FORTE coincident database has been the most heavily studied. LASA has also been used to interpret and validate the observations of LIS and OTD (with optical detectors). The EDOT data set is currently being used to compliment the ROCSAT-2 ISUAL payload observations of sprites. In this presentation, we will briefly review some of the surprising results which have been documented or validated with LASA in FORTE and LIS/OTD studies, specifically the comparison of radio and optical observations of lightning. We will present a comparison of ISUAL observations with LASA electric field measurements and discuss the coincident observations based our experience with past LASA satellite validation studies.
DE: 3324 Lightning
DE: 3304 Atmospheric electricity
DE: 0342 Middle atmosphere--energy deposition
SC: Atmospheric and Space Electricity [AE]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting