<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">Dear Colleagues,<span style="mso-font-kerning:0pt" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">We would like to sincerely invite you
to submit an abstract for Oral or Poster presentation to the session ST10:
Upper Atmosphere Responses to Lithosphere, Atmosphere and Anthropogenic
Disturbances, in the ST (Solar & Terrestrial Sciences) section at Asia
Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 15th Annual meeting
in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 03 – 08 June 2018. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">Earth’s upper atmosphere, especially,
the ionized component is sensitive to disturbances from the ground and
lower atmosphere. The waves are atmospheric acoustic and gravity waves (AGWs)
that can be generated by lithosphere activities and lower atmosphere
disturbances, such as seismic, tsunami, volcano eruptions, hurricane, tornados,
and meteorological disturbances. The environmental atmospheric conditions
can affect the propagation of the AGWs and thus various wave
characteristics can be recoded by neutral temperature, neutral density,
and electron density in the upper atmosphere.  On the other hand,
man-made disturbances, like explosion, rocket launches,
can generate anthropogenic disturbances that can also be
detected in the upper atmosphere. The objective of this session is to
encourage discussions on the upper atmospheric disturbances in both
neutral and ionized components resulting from the disturbances of lower
altitude origins, and allow us to better understand the vertical
coupling of the lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">Further information can be
found at <a href="http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018" class="">http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">Please note that the
deadline of abstract submission is on 19 January, 2018.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">Best,<u1:p class=""></u1:p><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">Charles Lin (National
Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)<u1:p class=""></u1:p><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">Yang-Yi Sun (China
University of Geosciences, China)<u1:p class=""></u1:p><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black" class="">Chi-Yen Lin (National
Central University, Taiwan)</span> </p></div><div class=""></div></body></html>