There is a new NRC post-doctoral research opportunity on the topic of thunderstorm electrification modeling and lightning data assimilation in mesoscale forecast models under the co-mentorship of me and Dr. Don MacGorman at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. If interested, please contact me and also visit the NRC web site.
Since participating in the TRIP-84 experiment, I've done several modeling studies of the electrification of isolated, weak multicell New Mexican mountain thunderstorms. These are listed under formal publications and informal publications including papers from 1986-1991.
A study was conducted of the electrification of the 22 May 1981 Binger, OK, supercell tornadic storm using the NSSL 3-D kinematic electrification model (Ziegler and MacGorman, JAS, 1994). An ongoing collaborative effort with Don MacGorman, Jerry Straka (Univ. of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology), and Edward Mansell (Univ. of Oklahoma, Dept. of Physics) has lead to the development of a fully coupled, 3-D dynamic cloud/storm electrification model by the OU-NSSL team. Several formal publications and a Ph.D dissertation reporting various aspects of this model have been completed or are in progress as of September 2001. A conference preprint on simulations of the early electrification of a supercell storm using the OU-NSSL model may be found here (International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity [ICAE], Preprints, 1999). I also presented an invited formal review talk on "Numerical modeling of electrification in convective clouds and storms: An overview focusing on formally reviewed studies published since 1987" to introduce a session dealing with thunderstorm electrification at the 1999 ICAE.