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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>Dear Colleagues,</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>We
cordially invite you to present your research at the 15th AOGS annual meeting in
the AS53 session: <b>Experimental And Theoretical Investigations On The
Electrodynamic Coupling Between Troposphere And Near-earth Environment</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meeting will be held from June 3 – June
8, 2018 in Honolulu, Hawaii.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abstract
submissions are available now through Friday Jan 19, 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More information can be found on the meeting’s
website </span><a href="http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018/"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'><font color="#0000ff">http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018/</font></span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below is the
session description.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>We invite presentations reporting
on recent progress made in the observations, techniques, and theoretical
modeling investigating the physical processes involved in lightning and the
coupling between the troposphere and near-earth space (including the stratosphere
and ionosphere) via thunderstorms, lightning, gravity waves, Transient Luminous
Events (TLEs), Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF), and related phenomena. 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><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>We look forward to seeing
you in Honolulu!</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>Conveners:</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>Dr.
Gaopeng Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>Prof.
Tai-Yin Huang (Penn State Lehigh Valley, United States)</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>Prof.Yaov
Yair (Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel)</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>Prof.
Cheng-Ling Kuo (National Central University, Taiwan)<br>
Dr. Xianghui Xue (University of Science and Technology of China, China)</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>Best,</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'> </span><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>The AS53 session conveners</span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><strong>**************************** </strong></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><strong>Dr. Tai-Yin Huang , 黃泰瑩 </strong></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><strong>Professor of Physics</strong></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><strong>Penn State Lehigh Valley</strong></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>