2025 Lightning Modeling Workshop
Workshop purpose
The purpose of the 2025 hybrid workshop was to (1) provide a venue to foster community discussion of the roadmap; (2) coordinate the efforts of the lightning physics and meteorology community to review scientific hurdles to progress and discuss solutions, updating the roadmap document; (3) work together in a focused way on pragmatic implementation plans and identification of resources needed to engineer a concrete, interconnected lightning model.
Agenda
The 2025 agenda followed a similar format to the 2024 workshop, but welcomed a much larger audience, including students. The workshop began with lunch at 11:30 am on 1 April, and the first formal session at 12:30 pm. It concluded at noon on 3 April. A full agenda is now available.
Invited Presentations and Reports
Presentations and Reports will be forthcoming
Meeting information
Registration is now closed. There is no registration cost ($0.00) for this meeting.
The meeting was held at the TTU International Cultural Center (map). Parking is free at the venue, in lots both north and south of the building. Enter through the North or South entrances, which are each under a breezeway.
Professional conduct during the meeting is expected. Please review the code of conduct, where you will also find a list of contacts should concerns arise.
Zoom and Google Meet links for online participants are now available here. Note the change to Google Meet for the Wednesday online breakouts
Shuttle van transport will run each morning. One van will pick up at the Staybridge. Another van will pick up at Hyatt Place, followed by the Holiday Inn Express. Please catch the earliest possible van since we can only carry 12 per trip.
| Morning Pickup | Hyatt Place (Van 1) | Holiday Inn Express (Van 1) | Staybridge (Van 2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 1 Apr | 10:30, 10:50, 11:15 | 10:35, 10:55, 11:20 | 10:30, 10:50, 11:15 |
| Wed 2 Apr | 8:00, 8:20, 8:45 | 8:05, 8:25, 8:50 | 8:00, 8:20, 8:45 |
| Thu 3 Apr | 8:00, 8:20, 8:45 | 8:05, 8:25, 8:50 | 8:00, 8:20, 8:45 |
Return shuttles will be provided after the meeting ends each day, to dinner on Tuesday, and to a lunch area and the Reese tour on Thursday. We encourage those with rental cars to invite others to join them to speed up end-of-day operations.
The conference hotels are as follows. Room blocks are now closed.
Field site tour after lunch on Thu 3 Apr, a tour of the TTU field site at Reese Center Bldg. 250(map) will take place. Shuttle vans will be used to transport participants who do not have a car; parking is free at Reese. Kelcy Brunner and several TTU grad students will facilitate.
Implentation planning and code sprint: The plenary meeting room will be available (with tables) after lunch on Thu 3 Apr for those who prefer to visit will colleagues to begin practical implementation work on the lightning model. Online participants are welcome as well. Eric Bruning will be present to facilitiate.
Eating near the TTU campus: The area immediately east of TTU along University Ave, near the football stadium, has a variety of eating locations, among other clusters of restaurants both near campus and across the city.