Three Dimensional Charge Structure of a Mountain Thunderstorm


William W. Hager, Beyza Caliskan Aslan, Richard G. Sonnenfeld, Timothy D. Crum, John D. Battles, Michael T. Holborn, and Ruth Ron



  • The paper

  • The published paper (at the JGR web site) Note that the JGR web site provides the movies and graphics in an easy to view format. Hit on "Supplementary Material"

  • Animated gif giving NOAA radar images in 5 minute intervals between 1843 UT and 2044 UT for a thunderstorm of August 18, 2004. White dot in the image is location of Langmuir Laboratory.

  • Animated gif giving NOAA N3R radar images in 5 minute intervals between 1946 UT and 2044 UT. The northern white dot is the location of Langmuir Laboratory. The southern white dots are separated by 60 km.

  • Location of cameras for side views of LMA pulses of storm

  • Camera 1 (view of storm from northwest)

  • Camera 2 (view of storm from northeast)

  • Camera 3 (view of storm from southeast)

  • Camera 4 (view of storm from southwest)

  • Animation Camera starts from top of storm pointed down with top of camera looking northwest. The camera rotates from the top to the eastern side of the storm and then makes a 360 degree counter clockwise rotation around the storm. This is a gzipped avi file which should be downloaded to your computer for viewing.
  • gzipped file containing animation

  • Location of cameras for side views of LMA pulses for Flash 2

  • Camera 1 (view of Flash 2 from northwest)

  • Camera 2 (view of storm from southeast)

  • Animation Camera starts from top of flash pointed down with top of camera looking southeast. The camera rotates from the top to the western side of the flash and then makes a 360 degree counter clockwise rotation around the flash. This is a gzipped avi file which should be downloaded to your computer for viewing.
  • gzipped file containing animation

  • Raw charge transport data