@InProceedings{SãoSabbasTavaresSGJGBKNFPGCBFCS:2017:LETLHE,
               author = "S{\~a}o Sabbas Tavares, Fernanda and Souza, Jonas Rodrigues de 
                         and Guerra, Eduardo Martins and J{\'u}lio Filho, Ant{\^o}nio 
                         Cassiano and Galv{\~a}o, Ricardo Magnus Os{\'o}rio and Branco, 
                         Renato Henrique Ferreira and Kherani, Esfhan Alam and Naccarato, 
                         Kleber Pinheiro and Federico, Cl{\'a}udio Ant{\^o}nio and 
                         Pazianotto, Maur{\'{\i}}cio Tizziani and Gatto, Rubens Cruz and 
                         Cisotto, Marcus Vinicius and Brito, Antonio Ferreira de and 
                         Fontes, Nicolas Ribeiro and Camargo, Igor Henrique and Silva, Ana 
                         Laura Gon{\c{c}}alves da",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais 
                         (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto de Estudos 
                         Avan{\c{c}}ados (IEAv)} and {Instituto Tecnol{\'o}gico de 
                         Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais 
                         (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "LEONA for TLE and HEET Research in South America",
            booktitle = "Abstracts...",
                 year = "2017",
         organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
             abstract = "In 2014 the core of LEONA, which is the Transient Luminous Event 
                         and Thunderstorm High Energy Emission Collaborative Network in 
                         Latin America, was established in Brazil with 4 ground stations 
                         equipped to perform Transient Luminous Events TLEs. This year a 
                         neutron detector was also installed to collect data on neutron 
                         flashes produced by lightning and thunderstorms themselves. 
                         Neutrons are one of the several types of High Energy Emissions 
                         from Thunderstorms HEETs. The TLE stations are operated remotely 
                         via internet, by users logged in LEONA website, and the HEET 
                         station is continuously and automatically operated. Now a proposal 
                         to expand LEONA to have 12 TLE ground stations, 2 HEET ground 
                         stations (for neutrons, gamma and X rays) and 1 HEET mobile 
                         station (for gamma and X rays) is currently under evaluation by 
                         the Brazilian S{\~a}o Paulo Research Foundation FAPESP, and if 
                         funded will start to be carried out in early 2018. The expanded 
                         version of LEONA will cover the Central Region of South America, 
                         including Southeast and Southern Brazil, Northern Argentina, 
                         Paraguay and Uruguay, which compose the most electrically active 
                         Region of South America. It will also have one TLE station in the 
                         Amazon and Northeast Regions of Brazil. South America is one of 
                         the most active thunderstorm regions of the world, with extremely 
                         large and long lived thunderstorms. Due to the South Atlantic 
                         Magnetic Anomaly SAMA, covering most of its territory, scientific 
                         satellites routinely turn off their equipment while flying over 
                         South America, therefore a ground network like LEONA is the only 
                         way to make consistent long term measurements of TLEs and HEET in 
                         this important region of the world. This paper will present LEONA 
                         in detail, its current operational status and its expansion plan 
                         over the next 4 years. It will also highlight the main results of 
                         the different TLE observations performed from Brazil up to date by 
                         the Atmospheric and Space Electrodynamical Coupling ACATMOS group 
                         at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research INPE, 
                         undertaking this challenging enterprise.",
  conference-location = "New Orleans",
      conference-year = "11-15 Dec.",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "12 maio 2024"
}