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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana sans-serif",serif;color:#515151;background:#F0F0F0'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>The 7th IAGA/ICMA/SCOSTEP Workshop on Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System will take place at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ on July 2-6, 2018. The focus of this workshop are the principle mechanisms of vertical coupling processes in the Earth’s atmosphere. We invite papers dealing with experiments, modelling, data analyses, and theoretical aspects that describe the effects of coupling processes within the atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere system; ROSMIC related contributions are highly encouraged.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>More detailed information can be found here:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.vcais2018.de">www.vcais2018.de</a></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Deadline for Abstract submission: 30 April 2018</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Petra Koucka Knizova</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Christina Arras</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Erdal Yigit</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Christoph Jacobi</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Dora Pancheva</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br>National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy, and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Loren Chang</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Institute of Space Science, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>