Genesis of thunderstorm ground enhancements

Enhancements to the Ground Processing Scheduling System

This research statement describes work in progress to enhance the performance of the Ground Processing Scheduling System (GPSS). The GPSS is a constraintbased scheduler that, using an anytime algorithm, deals with three kinds of constraints: temporal, resource, and configuration. It starts with a complete schedule that may have some constraint violations (conflicts) and gradually improves the s...

Enhancements to the Ground ProcessingScheduling SystemJuan

This paper describes work in progress to enhance the performance of the Ground Processing Scheduling System (GPSS). The GPSS is a constraint-based scheduler that deals with three kinds of constraints: temporal, resource, and connguration. It starts with a complete schedule that may have some constraint violations (connicts) and gradually improves the schedule by reducing the violations. The obj...

Applying a climatologically oriented GIS in comparison of TRMM estimated severe thunderstorm rainfalls with ground truth in Sydney metropolitan area

The main objective of the current research was comparison of severe thunderstorm rainfalls with TRMM data when flash flooding events observed in the Sydney Metropolitan Area (SMA) located in NSW, Australia. Severe Thunderstorm Rainfall Events have been first extracted from the severe storm archive of the Australian BOM, by induction of specific criteria. The corresponded derived dataset includ...

Effects of thunderstorm-driven runaway electrons in the conjugate hemisphere: Purple sprites, ionization enhancements, and gamma rays

The presence of energetic runaway electron beams above thunderstorms is suggested by observations of terrestrial gamma ray flashes [Fishman et al., 1994], as well as by theoretical work [Roussel-Dupré and Gurevich, 1996; Lehtinen et al., 1999], although such beams have not been directly measured. In this paper we consider possible measurable effects of such beams in the conjugate hemisphere as ...

A severe thunderstorm climatology for Australia and associated thunderstorm environments