@InProceedings{SãoSabbasSouzReseSilv:2018:ImFaRe,
               author = "S{\~a}o Sabbas, Eliah Fernanda de Maria Tavares and Souza, Jonas 
                         Rodrigues de and Resende, Laysa Cristina Ara{\'u}jo 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)}",
                title = "The importance of fairies research in South America with Leona and 
                         their ionospheric implications",
                 year = "2018",
         organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
             abstract = "South America is one of the most active thunderstorm regions of 
                         the world. In 2014 we started to establish in South America the 
                         Transient Luminous Event and Thunderstorm High Energy Emission 
                         Collaborative Network in Latin America LEONA, with 4 ground 
                         stations in Brazil. The objective of LEONA is to perform 
                         collaborative research in South America and make consistent long 
                         term ground based measurements of the Electrical Activity Related 
                         to Convective System FARIES, which are mainly observed as 
                         Transient Luminous Events TLEs and High Energy Emissions from 
                         Thunderstorms HEET. We are planning to expand LEONA to have 12 TLE 
                         ground stations, 2 fixed and 1 mobile HEET stations. The expanded 
                         version of LEONA will cover the Central Region of South America, 
                         including Southeastern and Southern Brazil, Northern Argentina, 
                         Paraguay and Uruguay, which compose the most electrically active 
                         Region of South America. In this paper we will present in detail 
                         the current status of LEONA network and we will present the first 
                         results of our analysis of the effects of FARIES detected over 
                         Brazil in the Ionosphere. We have analyzed one TLE producing 
                         thunderstorm combined with ionospheric data. The thunderstorm 
                         lifetime was ~32 h, it was a positive storm, with its highest +CG 
                         production of ~6480/30 min versus ~2700/30 min for the CG. Both 
                         polarity CGs peaked at the same time interval. The geomagnetic 
                         conditions were moderate to calm on the first day/night of the 
                         storm lifetime and calm on the second day/night, and the 
                         ionosphere presented several sporadic E layers (~90 km) at 
                         different moments of the thunderstorm lifetime, plus other unusual 
                         characteristics. We will present in details these preliminary 
                         results and the results of the ongoing analysis to determine how 
                         much they are related to the convective and electrical activity of 
                         the TLE producing storm and how much they are related to the 
                         geomagnetic conditions.",
  conference-location = "Washington, D. C.",
      conference-year = "10-14 dec.",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "sao sabbas_importance.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}