Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015

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Symbol M (Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary) » M-IS Intersection

[M-IS29] Atmospheric Electricity

Sun. May 24, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM A01 (APA HOTEL&RESORT TOKYO BAY MAKUHARI)

Convener:*Yasuhide Hobara(Graduate School of Information and Engineering Department of Communication Engineering and Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications), Tomoo Ushio(Information and communication engineering department, Osaka University), Chair:Tomoo Ushio(Information and communication engineering department, Osaka University)

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

[MIS29-14] The relation between summer sprites and lifecycle of parent storm system: 2013 Mt. Fuji observation campaign

*Yuko SUZUKI1, Masashi KAMOGAWA1, Tomoyuki SUZUKI1 (1.Dpt. of Phys., Tokyo Gakugei Univ)

Keywords:Sprite, Parent lightning, Thunderstorm

An isolated-mountain observation was conducted at the summit of Mt. Fuji (3776 m), Japan, to detect transient luminous events (TLEs) off the coast of the Boso Peninsula, Chiba, and the east coast of Japan. Many TLEs caused by energetic positive cloud-to-ground (+CG) lightning occurred in this region during the summer of 2013. Since the summer clouds covering the ground and ocean are usually located below the summit. A 360 degrees view from the isolated mountain along with low atmospheric pressure and unpolluted air over the summit is expected to facilitate the observation of TLEs and their vivid color images, respectively. We detected several distant TLEs with light-sensitive black-and-while CCD cameras and a color single-lens reflex camera. We investigate the relationship among sprites, the parent +CG lightning and the parent storm systems. Six sprite events were associated with +CG lightning and their estimated amplitude was 156 +- 76 kA (89 - 312 kA). Sprites appeared 41 +- 30 ms after +CG lightning. The +CG lightning with sprites were located in the stratiform precipitation region.