SESSION 1: "Thunderstorms and Lightning"
- Electrification in severe thunderstorms
- Effects on mesospheric airglow
- Thunderstorm-generated gravity waves
SESSION 2: "Global Electrical Circuit and Troposphere-Stratosphere Transport by Tropical Convective Storms"
- Controlling forces behind the global electrical circuit
- Troposphere-stratosphere coupling above thunderstorms
SESSION 3: "Observations and Modeling: TLEs and TGFs and Associated Phenomena"
- Streamers, sprites, leaders, elves, halos, jets, trolls, gnomes, pixies
- TLE and TGF statistics
- TLE and TGF (different modelling techniques)
- Effects of TLEs and TGFs on the atmosphere (including chemical effects)
- Radio wave observations in ULF/ELF/VLF/LF/MF/HF
SESSION 4: "Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Effects"
- Lightning-induced electron precipitation events
- Conjugate ionospheric effects of runaway electron beams
SESSION 5: "Instrumental Techniques"
- New technology for imaging detectors
- Benefits of multi-instrumental observations
SESSION 6: "Current and Future Dedicated Campaigns and Missions"
- Ground-based, balloon-based and plane-based campaigns
- Space-borne missions
SESSION 7: "Other Planets and Potential Effects to Humans, Education/Outreach"
- Lightning, global electrical circuit, etc. on other planets
- Lightning, TLEs and TGFs: climate connection?
- Education and public outreach activities
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