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SCHEDULE

Morning

Arrive in Tel Aviv

Sunday
Feb 5
Monday
Feb 6
Tuesday
Feb 7
Wednesday
Feb 8
Thursday
Feb 9
Friday
Feb 10
Saturday
Feb 11

Afternoon

Bus to Mitzpe Ramon

Evening

Ice Breaker

Morning

Oral Session 1 on Processes and Generators in the GEC

Afternoon

-Visit to Wise Observatory for Balloon Launch

-Visit to Ramon Crater

Evening

Discussion about GEC data sets, formats and comparisons

Morning

Oral Session 2 on Local Impacts on GEC parameters

Afternoon

-Visit to Zin Canyon, Ben Gurion Grave and Avdat archeological ruin

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Evening

Poster Session

Morning

Oral Session 3 on New Instrumentation and experimental techniques

Afternoon

Oral Session 4 on Modelling the GEC, cloud processes, electrification and lightning in models

Evening

Traditional Bedouin Dinner

 

Morning

Transfer to Northern Israel by bus

-swim in Dead Sea

-Possible visit to Masada

Afternoon

Drive to Sea of Galilee.

Night in hotel on Degania Bet kibbutz

Evening

Discussion of research gaps and future directions

Morning

Visit to Mt. Hermon Cosmic Ray Observatory (depending on weather)

Afternoon

Transfer to Tel Aviv hotel

-Possible visit to Nazareth on way to TA

Evening

Free

Departure from Ben Gurion Airport

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

 

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

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