<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">Dear CEDAR community,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">We would like to invite you to participate in the 2019 CEDAR Workshop Session: “<b><i>Atmosphere Vertical Coupling”.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino"> (</span><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2019_Workshop:Atmosphere_vertical_coupling" target="_blank">http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2019_Workshop:Atmosphere_vertical_coupling</a>)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">The session is scheduled for Wednesday, June 19th from 13:30-15:30.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We will discuss the dynamical coupling processes between the troposphere, mesosphere, and the thermosphere-ionosphere systems. We are interested in understanding how Extreme Weather Events, namely, sources of highly energetic waves, affect the upper levels, mainly the Thermosphere/Ionosphere system via MSTID observations. These waves are detected frequently on the mesosphere and thermosphere via imagery of the airglow layers, incoherent scattering radars to sense the ionosphere plasma electron density and temperature, VLF receivers sensing the plasma at D region altitudes, and GPS receivers via the total electron content measurements. Waves impose dynamical variability in a wide range of scales, perturb densities in the MLT and upper thermosphere modulating the atmospheric fields in the D, E, and F region as well. This workshop will emphasize state-of-the-art investigations of atmospheric weather-related processes that enable or indicate coupling within the atmosphere layers. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">If you would like to be involved in this session, please get in touch with us. <u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Look forward to your participation!<u></u><u></u></span></pre><p class="MsoNormal" style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