Program for the Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on the Atmospheric Global Electric Circuit (GEC)

 

Sunday 5 February

1600:  Bus leaves from Art Plus Hotel, Tel Aviv for Mitzpe Ramon

1900:  Dinner

2100:  Ice Breaker

 

Monday 6 February

Session 1:  Processes and Generators in the GEC

0900:  Welcome and Introduction

0915: Michael Rycroft (United Kingdom):  Overview

1000: Brian Tinsley (United States): Observations and electrical cloud mechanisms for high latitude surface pressure responses to day-to-day changes in ionospheric potential.

1015: Eugene Mareev (Russia): Towards a new paradigm in the description of the GEC generators

1030:  Coffee break

1100: Vitaly Bogomolov (Russia): Magnetosphere electron precipitation and high altitude discharges as elements of the Global Electric Circuit.  Results from the Vernov and Lomonosov missions.

1115: Yuval Reuveni (Israel):  Ground level gamma-ray and electric field measurements during disturbed weather: combined signatures from convective clouds, lightning and rain

1130: Keri Nicoll (United Kingdom): Stratiform cloud electrification through the global electric circuit

1145: Vaughan Phillips (Sweden): Numerical simulations of lightning

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1200 Lunch

1300: Bus to Wise Observatory (balloon launch, tour) followed by visit to Ramon geological museum and Ramon crater

 

1800: Dinner

2000: Discussion about GEC datasets, formats and comparisons (led by Keri Nicoll)

 

Tuesday 7 February

Session 2:  Local Impacts on GEC parameters

0900: Giles Harrison (United Kingdom):  Overview

0945:  Anna Odzimek (Poland):  Global atmospheric electric circuit and the polar regions

1000: Yoav Yair (Israel):  Dust electrification on Earth and analogies to Mars

1015: Coffee

1045:  Earle Williams (United States):  Five special days in Vostok/Concordia

1100: Masashi Kamogawa (Japan): Local modulation of atmospheric electricity: The 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident

1115: Orit Altaratz (Israel):  Aerosol effects on lightning activity

1130: Yasuhide Hobara (Japan): A study on global temperature and thunderstorm activity by using the data of Schumann resonance observed in Japan

1145: V. Gopalakrishnan (India): Contribution of Conduction current to GEC during dissipation stage of thunderstorm

 

12:00: Lunch

1300:  Bus trip to Avdat archeological site, Zin Valley and Ben Gurion memorial

 

1900:  Dinner

2000:  Poster session

 

Wednesday 8 February

Session 3:  New instrumentation for studying the GEC

0900: Karen Aplin (United Kingdom):  Overview

0945:  Oscar van der Velde (Spain):  Development of airborne methods for atmospheric electricity measurements at the UPC

1000: Boaz Ben-Moshe (Israel): Using atmospheric balloon and return glider for upper-atmospheric remote sensing measurements – A proof of concept

1015:  Coffee

1045: Susan Barbosa (Portugal): the gamma radiation monitoring campaign at the Eastern North Atlantic ARM facility

1100: Hovav Zafrir (Israel):  Gamma ray spectral analysis of long-term atmospheric radiation measurements, above and below the surface.

1115: Jean-Pierre Raulin (Brazil): The AFINSA network: presentation and first results

1130: Theodore Giannaros (Greece):  Operational lightning forecasting in Europe

1145: Christos Haldoupis (Greece): Long lasting effects on the D region Ionosphere caused by intense CG lightning

 

1200: Lunch

 

Session 4:  Modelling of the GEC

1400: Eugene Mareev (Russia):  Overview

1445: Jaroslav Jansky (United States):  Analysis of the diurnal variations of the global electric circuit obtained from different numerical models

1500: Michael Rycroft (United Kingdom): The consistency between DC and AC models of the air conductivity profile

1515: Coffee

1545: Vladimir Morozov (Russia):  Theoretical investigations on the Global Electric Circuit in Voeikov Main observatory (St. Petersburg)

1600: Alexander Khain (Israel):  Formation of lightning in tropical cyclones

1615:  Barry Lynn (Israel):  Prediction lightning in the WRF model

 

1800: Workshop Dinner at Bedouin Tent

 

Thursday 9 February

0900:  Bus leaves hotel for Dead Sea and Masada tour (check out of hotel)

1300:  Lunch at the Dead Sea

1800:  Dinner at Kibbutz Degania (Sea of Galilee).  Hotel at Degania kibbutz (north Israel)

2000:  Evening discussion of Research Gaps and Future Directions (led by Earle Williams)

 

Friday 10 February

0900:  Walking tour of Kibbutz Degania History

1000: Bus leaves for Golan and Mt. Hermon Cosmic Ray Observatory

1300: Lunch in Druze Village

1400:  Drive to Nazareth (visit Church of the Annunciation)

1800: Return to Art Plus Hotel in Tel Aviv

 

 

Poster Session (Tuesday evening 7 February) [90x150 cm portrait]

1. Anirban Guha (India):  Schumann resonance and global warming: A new approach to monitor long-term climate change

2. Jozsef Bor and Veronika Barta (Hungary):  Half a century of near-surface electric field measurements at NCK observatory, Hungary: a review

3.  Min-Duan Tzeng (Taiwan): Simulation of electric field and lightning using the NTU scheme coupled with the WRF model

4.  Roy Yaniv (Israel):  Summary of ground and airborne measurements of electrical parameters in Israel

5.  Shai Katz (Israel): The peculiar electrical properties of the 8-12th September, 2015 massive dust outbreak over the Levant

6.  Earle Williams (United States):  Five special Schumann resonance days in 2009

7. Earle Williams (United States):  Hiatus in Global Warming

8. Inna Gubenko (Russia):  Simulation of a severe thunderstorm event over Moscow region using the WRF-model

9. Venkatachalam Gopalakrishnan (India):  On the effect of electrical forces on raindrop size distribution

10. Vital Bogomolov (Russia):  Observations of gamma-ray flashes from the atmosphere at different latitudes in the Vernov and Lomonosov missions

11. Hripsime Mkrtchyan (Armenia):  Preliminary results of the impact of solar events on the near surface electric field

12. Yen-Jung (Joanne) Wu (Taiwan):  Revisiting oceanic elves and lightning occurrence rate during El Nino and La Nina episodes in a 10-year time frame

13. Anna Odzimek (Poland):  Measurements of the atmospheric electric field at the Polish atmospheric electricity stations

14. Anna Odzimek (Poland):  Dynamic and electric charge structure of thunderclouds obtained from the WRF-ELEC model and related to the charge sources of multiple CG flashes detected by the LLDN in the Warsaw region during the thunderstorm season of 2009

15. Margarita Kaznacheeva (Russia): Measurements of UV transient atmospheric events by the TUS detector on board the Lomonosov satellite

16.  Ivan Maximov (Russia):  Study of thunderstorm ground enhancements (TGE) and gamma-ray flashes in 0.03-10MeV energy range in ground experiments near Moscow and Aragatz

17. Lev Pustilnik (Israel): Israel Space Weather and Earth Environment Observatory on the Mount Hermon

18. Yasuhide Hobara (Japan): Preliminary results from total lightning observation in Japan

19.  Jose Carlos Tacza Anya (Brazil): Effects of geophysical disturbances on atmospheric electric field

20.  Brian Tinsley (USA):  Insights from Vostok and Concordia simultaneous Ez measurements

21.  Masashi Kamogawa (Japan):  Local-time daily variation of fair-weather atmospheric electric field at the high mountain.

22. Masashi Kamogawa (Japan): Intensive atmospheric electric field variation during snow blizzard at Antarctica

23. Jaroslav Jansky (USA): Charge balance and ionospheric potential dynamics in time-dependent global electric circuit model