LEAP - Lightning, electricity, atmospheres of planetary objects

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Christiane Helling (University of St Andrews)
• Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00
• Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Judith Moss.

Charge processes in planetary atmospheres have always sparked fear and fascination. Lightning is a natural phenomenon with which we – here on Earth – grow up, but do we understand what it is? If nature is universal, lightning and charge processes should also occur outside our solar system. Where? Only in planets? Maybe not. The desire to understand the physics of lightning and it’s impact on its environment drives the LEAP project. Exciting question touch upon fundamental physics, numerically challenging models, planetary atmospheres and volcano outbreaks.

I will present an overview of the LEAP group’s work on how ionisation processes (thermal, dust collision, cosmic rays, flow-induced) structure cloud forming atmospheres, 3D cloud formation modelling in dynamic planetary atmospheres, and the emergence of lighting in such chemically and dynamically active atmospheres.

This talk is part of the Institute of Astronomy Colloquia series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• Cambridge Astronomy Talks
• Combined External Astrophysics Talks DAMTP
• Cosmology lists
• Cosmology, Astrophysics and General Relativity
• Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
• Institute of Astronomy Talk Lists
• Kavli Institute for Cosmology Talk Lists
• Priscilla
• Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.