<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><div><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas; ">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><div>Invitation to participate in the AGU session: </div><div>Session ID: <b>2860</b> </div><div>Session title: <b>Neutral dynamics: Significance to the aeronomy and challenge for measurements and simulations </b></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>From Yue Deng (<a href="mailto:yuedeng@uta.edu">yuedeng@uta.edu</a>).</div><div><br></div></span><div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Consolas; ">We would like to invite you to participate in the Neutral dynamics session at 2014 AGU.</div><div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Consolas; "><br></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3"><b>Session Description:</b> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">A full understanding of the behavior of thermospheric winds is fundamentally important to</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">advancing our knowledge of the changes in the thermosphere and ionosphere system under various geophysical</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">conditions. However, the changes in the thermospheric winds and the way that they affect ionospheric variations are</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">still poorly understood. This is related in part to the shortage of wind observations, which are essential to guide and</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">validate first principles modeling of the physical drivers for the wind changes. This session aims to assess our current</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">understanding of thermospheric winds and discuss the dynamics of the ionosphere and thermosphere and their</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">response to solar and terrestrial inputs. The session welcomes presentations of the following topics related to</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">thermospheric winds: solar cycle, seasonal and diurnal variations; temporal and spatial structures of different scales;</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">storm-time behavior and related ionospheric effects; neutral wind dynamo and its variations; transport by neutral winds;</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3">and ion-neutral coupling.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3"><br></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3"><b>Primary Section/Focus Group</b>: SPA-Aeronomy</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas"><p style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Co-Sponsor(s):</b></p>
<p style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; ">AE - Atmospheric and Space Electricity</p>
<p style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; ">SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics</p>
<p style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; ">SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics</p><p style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3"><b>Conveners:</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas">Yue Deng, University of Texas at Arlington, US</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas">Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, US</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas">Jonathan Makela, University of Illinois, US</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3"><b><br></b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas" size="3"><b> </b></font></p></font></p></div></div></body></html>