<html><body><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please consider to submit an abstract to the AS07 session-Atmospheric and Space Electricity at the AOGS annual meeting to be held in Singapore from 6-11 August, 2017. <strong>The abstract submission deadline is Feb 15.</strong> We look forward to an exciting exchange of the latest results on lightning, space electricity and related topics. Session description can be found below. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">AS07 session-Atmospheric and Space Electricity</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Presentations are invited on the topics related to recent progresses on the observations, techniques, and theoretical modeling to investigate the physical processes involved in lightning and the coupling between troposphere and near-earth space (including stratosphere and ionosphere) via thunderstorms, lightning, gravity waves, Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF), Lidar, and etc. These studies investigate the physical and chemical processes in thunderstorms and lightning, and their effects and impacts on the lower, middle and upper atmosphere through atmospheric transport processes, TLE-related perturbations in the middle/upper atmosphere, temperature changes, gas concentration variations, chemical changes, and other coupling processes between the lower atmosphere and the near-earth space environment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead Convener & Co-Conveners: </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gaopeng Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style='color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yaov Yair, </span><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya</span><span style='color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">, Israel Tai-Yin Huang, Penn State Lehigh Valley, United States Cheng-Liing Kuo, National Central University, Taiwan Xianghui Xue, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, China</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Best,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;' data-mce-style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The AS07 session conveners </span></p></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);" data-mce-style="color: #cc99ff;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </span><br><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"><strong><a href="http://php.scripts.psu.edu/tuh4/" data-mce-href="http://php.scripts.psu.edu/tuh4/">Dr. Tai-Yin Huang </a>, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">黃泰瑩 </span></strong></span></em></span></div><div>
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