AGS-PRF: Next Generation of Gamma-ray Detectors Designed to Study Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, Gamma-ray Glows and X-ray Stepped Leaders

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项目编号	1433504
	AGS-PRF: Next Generation of Gamma-ray Detectors Designed to Study Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, Gamma-ray Glows and X-ray Stepped Leaders
	Nicole Kelley
主持机构	Kelley Nicole
项目开始年	2015
	2015-02-01
项目结束日期	2017-01-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Fellowship
项目经费	86000(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	High-energy atmospheric physics is a relatively new field of study regarding high-energy radiation that is emitted by lightning in thunderstorms. There are three types of high-energy emission that have been observed in connection with thunderstorms so far: gamma-ray glows, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) and x-ray stepped leaders. The research under this Postdoctoral Fellowship Award will seek to better measure, understand, and perhaps make a connection between these processes. This work will have societal benefit through improved understanding of radiation from thunderstorms, which has become a concern for airline crew and passengers. The project will also promote undergraduate education through a mentoring relationship and international collaboration through interaction with Japanese scientists. Gamma-ray glows, TGFs and x-ray stepped leaders are phenomena that may be related and can help explain the overall charging and discharging of a thunderstorm. This project targets the study of these three processes and outlines the development of cheap, fast and high-throughput gamma-ray detectors and their deployment to study uniquely low-topped thunderstorms in Japan. Four detectors will be built over two years at the Space Science Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to the new measurement capability, the researcher will also be analyzing TGF data from already existing satellite and airborne instruments.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/67504
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nicole Kelley.AGS-PRF: Next Generation of Gamma-ray Detectors Designed to Study Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, Gamma-ray Glows and X-ray Stepped Leaders.2015.