<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Invitation to participate in the CEDAR workshops: Thermospheric wind </div><div>variations and their interaction with the ionosphere on Tuesday, 24th June 2014</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>From Yue Deng (yuedeng@uta.edu).</div><div><br></div><div>We would like to invite you to participate in the Thermospheric wind </div><div>variations and their interaction with the ionosphere</div><div>workshop on Tuesday, 24th June at 2014 CEDAR. A full understanding of the behavior of the thermospheric wind</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">circulation is of fundamental importance to advancing our overall</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">knowledge of the change of the global thermosphere and ionosphere system</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">under various geophysical conditions, especially during geomagnetic</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">storms. However, the changes of the global thermospheric wind</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">circulation and the way that they affect ionospheric variations are</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">still poorly understood. This is related in part to the shortage of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">global wind observations. Such observations are essential for first</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">principles modeling of the physical processes that drive the changes of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">the winds. This workshop aims to assess our current understanding of the</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">thermospheric winds, the processes that drive them, and their</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">interaction with the ionosphere.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The workshop welcomes short, focused presentations, typically comprised</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">of 5 slices or so of the following topics related to neutral winds in</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">the upper thermosphere (above ~200 km):solar cycle, seasonal and diurnal</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">variations; neutral wind structure of different temporal and spatial</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">scales; storm-time behavior of neutral winds and related ionospheric</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">effects; the neutral wind dynamo and its variations; transport by</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">neutral winds including vertical winds; and ion-neutral coupling.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Presentations relating to both observations and modeling are welcome.</div></span></div><div><br></div><div>Wenbin Wang (wbwang@ucar.edu),</div><div>Yue Deng (yuedeng@uta.edu),</div><div>Mark conde(mark.conde@gi.alaska.edu),</div><div>Jonathan Makela(jmakela@illinois.edu)</div><div><br></div><div>The CEDAR webpage is at</div><div><a href="http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2014_Workshop:neutral_winds">http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2014_Workshop:neutral_winds</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div></div></body></html>