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<div>We are very pleased to announce that the Geophysical Research
Letters (GRL) will be soon accepting paper submissions to the Special
Section on the 21 August 2017 solar eclipse. <font size="2">We </font>would like to <font size="2"> invite you to submit
your work addressing solar eclipse effects on geospace to this special section. </font></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10pt">Title of the special section: </span><span style="font-size:10pt">New understanding of the solar eclipse effects on geospace: the 21 August 2017 Solar Eclipse </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10pt">Submission window: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">October 1 - December 31, 2017</span></span>. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10pt">Special section description:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:10pt">A solar eclipse generates dramatic
changes throughout the Earth's geospace due to the fast reduction and
recovery of solar EUV irradiation. It modifies local and global
energetics, dynamics, and the ionospheric ionization supply,
leading to substantial changes in the coupled
magnetosphere-ionosphere-therm<wbr>osphere-mesosphere (geospace) system.
It is an idealized "active experiment" to explore the impulse-response
dynamics of geospace and to address some of the fundamental scientific
questions in geospace. The 21 August 2017 solar eclipse provides an
unprecedented opportunity for this because of the large amount of
observational data obtained during the eclipse with recent major
advances in sensitivity, spatial/temporal resolution, and
global coverage of measurements, as well as the development of
sophisticated geospace modeling tools. This special issue aims at
quantifying the new understanding of the solar eclipse effects on
geospace. This new understanding includes, but not limited to,
global ionospheric and thermospheric changes, responses of neutral
composition, temperature, and winds, traveling ionospheric disturbances,
geomagnetic and electric field disturbances, localized and meso-scale
structures, lower ionospheric changes and associated
impacts on VLF/LF/HF radio propagation.</span></div>
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<div>Please use AGU GEMS system (<a href="https://grl-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex" target="_blank">https://grl-submit.agu.org/cg<wbr>i-bin/main.plex</a>) to submit your manuscript. When<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"> preparing
your manuscript,</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> it is important to follow the regular GRL
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checklists and templates page</a></span></font><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">for new and revised submissions.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div>
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<div style="font-family:"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Finally, please note that AGU and its editors are also willing to extend this collection to articles that may be
appropriate for JGR-Space Physics [<a href="http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/jgr/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%292169-9402/aims-and-scope/read-full-aims-and-scope.html" target="_blank">Read full aims and scope</a>], and Space Weather [<a href="http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291542-7390/aims-and-scope/read-full-aims-and-scope.html" target="_blank">Read
full aims and scope</a>]. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Special</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> section coordinators:</span></font></div>
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<div>Wenbin Wang (NCAR HAO, <a href="mailto:wbwang@ucar.edu" target="_blank">wbwang at ucar.edu</a>)</div>
<div>Shunrong Zhang (MIT Haystack, shunrong at <a href="http://mit.edu" target="_blank">mit.edu</a>)</div>
<div>Aaron Ridley (U of Michigan, ridley at <a href="http://umich.edu" target="_blank">umich.edu</a>)</div>
Larisa Goncharenko (MIT Haystack, lpg at <a href="http://mit.edu" target="_blank">mit.edu</a>)</div>