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Member Since 2010
Hugh J. Christian Jr
Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Professional Experience
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Principal Research Scientist
Education
Rice University
Doctorate
1977
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2020
Citation
For pioneering space-based lightning mapping instruments and advancing knowledge of atmospheric and space electricity
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Benjamin Franklin Lecture
Received December 2017
Publications
Evidence of a New Population of Weak Terrestrial Gamma‐Ray Flashes Observed From Aircraft Altitude
Terrestrial Gamma‐ray Flashes (TGFs) are ten‐to‐hundreds of microsecond bursts of gamma‐rays produced when electrons in str...
September 07, 2024
Submicrosecond Spectroscopy of Lightning‐Like Discharges: Ex...
August 07, 2020
First 10 Months of TGF Observations by ASIM
December 19, 2019
AGU Abstracts
The Novel View of Gamma-Ray Active Thunderclouds from the ALOFT Flight Campaign
ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE ELECTRICITY QUICK STRIKES ELIGHTNING
atmospheric and space electricity | 11 december 2024
Martino Marisaldi, Nikolai Ostgaard, Timothy J. La...
The ALOFT* 2023 flight campaign is revolutionizing the field of atmospheric electricity, providing observations of gamma-ray emissions from tropical t...
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Temporal Characteristics of Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes (FGFs) as Seen by iSTORM During the 2023 ALOFT Campaign
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Daniel Shy, J Eric Grove, Bernard F. Phlips, M. Ke...
Prior to 2023, two different gamma-ray transients were known to originate from thunderstorms: Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) and gamma-ray glows...
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Temporal Morphology of Gamma-ray Glows from Thunderstorms Using iSTORM During the 2023 ALOFT Campaign
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
J Eric Grove, Daniel Shy, Bernard F. Phlips, M. Ke...
The 2023 ALOFT campaign surveyed Caribbean and Central American thunderstorms from a NASA ER-2 at 20-km altitude. The aircraft was outfitted with a fu...
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