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<h1 style="margin-top:2.95pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">ISEA-14:<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>First<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Announcement<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>-<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">May</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>2014</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy (ISEA) is organized approximately every three to four years and is a major event in the field of
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.05pt">Aeronomy</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">serves</span><span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span>as<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">forum</span><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">for</span><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">scientists</span><span style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> around the world
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">to</span><span style="letter-spacing:.25pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">report</span><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">discuss</span><span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> their
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">recent</span><span style="letter-spacing:4.45pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">research</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">results </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">progress</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">related</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">to</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">the</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt">
</span>physics<span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">of</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">the</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">thermosphere</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> ionosphere</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> equatorial,</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">low- and mid-latitudes. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:17.85pt;text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:17.85pt;text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The 14<sup>th</sup> International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy will be held in Africa for the first time in more than four decades, from October 19-23, 2015 at Bahir Dar University,
in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Bahir Dar city, one of the tourist destinations in the country, is about 560 km from the capital, Addis Ababa. There are at least two flights per day to Bahir Dar from Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa, the capital of the African Union, is one
of the most easily accessible African cities. There are many flights to Addis Ababa by major carriers, including direct flights from Washington DC and many European major cities. Information about ISEA-14 can be found at
</span><a href="http://www.bdu.edu.et/isea14/"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.bdu.edu.et/isea14/</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h1 style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;letter-spacing:-.05pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;letter-spacing:-.05pt">The</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">ISEA-14<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>scientific<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>sessions</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.05pt">The</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">ISEA-</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">14<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">program</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">includes</span><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> six
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">scientific</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">
</span>sessions<span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">with</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">oral</span><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">poster</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">presentations and will be distributed over</span><span style="letter-spacing:.5pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">four</span><span style="letter-spacing:.5pt">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt">
</span>half<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">conference</span><span style="letter-spacing:.5pt">
</span>days.<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> A more detailed program will be available soon.</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> S</span>ession<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> descriptions</span>,<span style="letter-spacing:2.05pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">including</span><span style="letter-spacing:2.05pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">conveners</span><span style="letter-spacing:2.05pt">
</span>are<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> given below. This information is also available on the ISEA-14 website indicated above.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S1:</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling impact at low- and mid-latitudes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-margin-top-alt:.6pt;margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:103%">
<i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S2:</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Longitudinal dependence of equatorial electrodynamics and storm-enhanced density<span style="letter-spacing:3.55pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-margin-top-alt:.6pt;margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:103%">
<i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S3:</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ionospheric irregularities and scintillations<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S4:</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New results from recently deployed instrumentation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-margin-top-alt:.85pt;margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:103%">
<i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S5: </span>
</i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Equatorial aeronomy related to atmosphere-ionosphere coupling<span style="letter-spacing:3.05pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-margin-top-alt:.85pt;margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:103%">
<i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S6:</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Future opportunities using upcoming new mission and planned ground-based instrumentation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Session 1:
<i>Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling impact at low- and mid-latitudes</i><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h2><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Convener</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">s:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">H. Wang and A. Yoshikawa, and L. Goncharenko</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MSO</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: J. L. Chau and C. Stolle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Description:
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The inner magnetosphere and the ionosphere are closely coupled through the Earth’s closed magnetic field lines at low- and mid-latitudes. Many phenomena occurring in the inner magnetosphere,
such as polarization electric fields, region 2 field-aligned currents, and wave-particle interactions, can have effects on the ionosphere. On the other hand, ionospheric conditions like ionospheric conductivity and ion upflow can alter magnetospheric processes.
Open field lines, or the field lines that reach far into the magnetotail, allow enhanced solar and magnetospheric energy inputs into the high-latitude ionosphere. It is presently believed that high- and low-latitudes are connected through tidal waves. Modulations
by planetary and gravity waves are equally important for energy dissipation between polar and equatorial regions, such as traveling atmospheric and ionospheric disturbances, or the disturbance dynamo being initiated by enhanced energy input into the high-latitude
atmosphere. This session will cover the coupling processes between the inner magnetosphere, solar and magnetospheric energy transferred into the polar ionosphere and the ionosphere and thermosphere at low- and mid-latitudes. This includes traveling atmospheric
and ionospheric disturbances, the disturbance dynamo, as well as variations of electric and magnetic fields and of the electric currents. Reports on observations, modeling, and theoretical aspects are all welcome.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Special focus is expected, but not exclusive, on:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:27.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">the response of the low- and mid-latitude ionosphere to penetrating electric magnetospheric fields vs. the disturbance dynamo (e.g., what is the response of
low- and mid-latitude dynamics depending on storm onset times and local time?) <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:27.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">the contribution of magnetospheric sources to quiet-time variability at low- and mid-latitudes. What is the contribution from tropospheric forcing and from magnetospheric
and solar wind sources? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-58.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-58.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Session 2:
<i>Longitudinal dependence of equatorial electrodynamics and storm-enhanced density</i></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-58.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Conveners</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: M. Nishioka, V. Doumbia,
and C. Nardin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MSO</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: P.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Erickson</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><br>
<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Description:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> This session encourages scientific contributions related to the longitudinal dependence of important
processes affecting low- and mid-latitude electrodynamics and ionospheric structuring. Storm enhanced density (SED), vertical ionospheric drifts, the equatorial electrojet (EEJ), the equatorial ionospheric anomaly (EIA), and equatorial plasma irregularities
can all have significant longitudinal variations with large implications for global and regional ionosphere and thermosphere dynamics. We welcome contributions addressing observations of longitudinal differences, studies elucidating key drivers, and insights
they provide into the larger coupled geospace system and into the relative influence of charged and neutral atmospheric processes. Local, regional, and global-scale observations from satellites, ground-based radio and optical techniques, magnetometers, and
others are appropriate as well as modeling and theoretical results are also welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Session 3:
<i>Ionospheric irregularities and scintillations</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-58.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Conveners</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: F. S. Rodrigues, A. Bhattacharyya,
and T. Yokoyama<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MSO</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: J. Makela and M. Milla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Description:</i> This session covers scientific contributions related to fundamental and applied aspects of E- and F-region ionospheric irregularities at equatorial-, low-, and mid-latitudes, formation of 150-km echoes, and sporadic E-layers. The session
welcomes presentations describing results of investigations related to seeding processes, evolution, and decay of equatorial and mid-latitude spread-F structures. The session also welcomes presentations of investigations related to geophysical factors governing
the evolution and suppression of topside equatorial irregularities, and processes leading to the manifestation of post-midnight and/or June solstice spread-F. Contributions related to the effects of the turbulent ionosphere on signals used by satellite-based
navigation systems and signals used for communication and remote sensing are also encouraged. Results from investigations pertaining to theoretical, experimental, modeling, and numerical simulation studies are encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Session 4:
<i>New results from recently deployed instrumentation</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-58.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Conveners</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: J. Meriwether, C. Amory,
B. Rabiu, and H. Liu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MSO</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: E. Yizengaw and K. Shiokawa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Description:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> This is an open session for the scientific
community to report their observational results from recently deployed ground-based instruments, particularly in Africa -- a region that has not yet been explored in detail. Thus, papers that have an emphasis upon results from ground-based instruments recently deployed
at new geographic locations or recently launched LEO satellite missions (e.g., SWARM) are invited for this session. Such instruments might be digital ionosondes, magnetometers, GNSS receivers, coherent or incoherent scatter radars, and optical all-sky imaging,
and Fabry-Perot interferometers. Papers with results based upon networks of such instruments and papers associated with new measurements in the African longitudinal sector are especially encouraged for submission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Session 5:
<i>Equatorial aeronomy related to atmosphere-ionosphere coupling</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Conveners:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Tim Fuller-Rowell, D. Chakrabarty, and Charles
Lin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MSO</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: K. Shiokawa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Description:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> This session encourages scientific contributions
related to the roles of lower atmospheric processes like tides, gravity waves and planetary waves on the thermosphere and ionospher</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">e</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">,
including electrodynamics</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> at equatorial and low latitudes, from the perspective
of vertical/latitudinal coupling and temporal variability. Results that address the roles of migrating and non-migrating tides, wave-mean flow interactions and neutral instabilities, sudden stratospheric warming events, etc. in the equatorial ionospheric processes
are welcome. Contributions that address the relative roles of solar activity and lower atmospheric processes at various solar epochs are encouraged. Studies related to the role of the spectrum of waves across all spatial and temporal scales propagating from
the lower atmosphere that impact the equatorial ionosphere are also solicited. This session intends to cover the satellite, ground-based experimental results on global, regional and local scales as well as theoretical and modeling results that elicit intricate
coupling aspects between the lower atmosphere and the equatorial ionosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Session 6:
<i>Future opportunities using upcoming new mission and planned ground-based instrumentation<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Conveners:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> J. Makela, K. Shiokawa, and C. Stolle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MSO</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: D. Pallamraju and A. Stromme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Description:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> New experimental results help in advancing
scientific understanding. Especially for space research, ground- and balloon-based as well as satellite-borne measurements complement each other with high temporal resolution and large spatial coverage datasets to provide insightful information on the atmospheric
coupling processes and the dynamics of upper atmospheric regions. In the recent past many experiments and missions have been conducted and several are planned in the near future. They include experiments from new ground-based instruments operating in enhanced
observational modes or new satellite missions, such as ICON, GOLD, COSMIC-2, and a variety of CubeSat programs. This session invites abstracts that describe results from recent multi-instrumented campaigns (using ground, rockets, balloon, and satellites platforms).
This session also welcomes new experiments, modeling and simulations studies aimed to address outstanding questions, future trends, and challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">If you are interested in participating in ISEA-14, have any question regarding ISEA-14, and want to receive
future announcements please contact us at </span><a href="mailto:kassie@bc.edu"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">kassie@bc.edu</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-right:27.15pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;letter-spacing:-.05pt">The
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">ISEA-14<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span>International<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">Organizing</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span>Committee</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Endawoke Yizengaw (Boston College, USA; Kassie@bc.edu)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jonathan<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span>Makela<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>(University<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Illinois,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>USA;<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>jmakela@illinois.edu)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jorge<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>L.<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Chau<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">(IAP,</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">Germany;</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">chau@iap-kborn.de)</span><span style="letter-spacing:3.55pt">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:3.55pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Philip Erickson (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MIT Haystack Observatory,
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">USA; pje@haystack.mit.edu)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kazuo Shiokawa (Nagoya University, Japan; shiokawa@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Duggirala Pallamraju (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Physical Research Laboratory</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">,
India; </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">raju@prl.res.in)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Claudia Stolle (GFZ Potsdam, Germany; cstolle@gfz-potsdam.de)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anja Stromme (SRI, USA/Norway; Anja.Stromme@sri.com)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Marco Milla (JRO, Peru; marco.milla@jro.igp.gob.pe)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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