<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16);min-height:16px"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif">You are cordially invited to submit abstracts to session SA012 "<a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/81614" target="_blank">Next Generation Thermospheric Winds</a>" at </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">AGU Fall Meeting, </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">to be held on 9-13 December 2019 </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">in San Francisco, California</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">*************AGU Session Details******************</font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16);min-height:15px"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(20,20,20)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Session Title:</b> SA012 - Next Generation Thermospheric Winds </font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(20,20,20)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Section:</b> SPA-Aeronomy </font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,60,192)"><span style="color:rgb(20,20,20)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Session Link:</b> <a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/81614" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/81614</span></a></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Conveners:</b> </font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Sovit Khadka<span style="color:rgb(22,22,22)">/ </span>New Jersey Institute of Technology, Patrick Dandenault<span style="color:rgb(22,22,22)">/ </span>Johns Hopkins University, Andrew Gerrard<span style="color:rgb(22,22,22)">/ </span>New Jersey Institute of Technology</font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Session Description:</b> </font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Thermospheric neutral winds play a decisive role in controlling various geospace processes, the coupling between different layers in the upper atmosphere, the redistribution of plasma and neutral composition, the generation of waves and density structures, etc. These phenomena perturb the space environment/medium and can severely impact modern space-based technologies. Measurements and understandings of thermospheric wind dynamics over a full diurnal cycle are required to resolve these issues. The availability of space-based (NASA-GOLD, ICON, etc.) and ground-based observations creates new opportunities for multi-disciplinary and multi-instrument collaborations to advance the current understandings of the thermospheric wind dynamics, and to validate existing wind models. This session welcomes contributions on all aspects of research aimed to address the current challenges associated with our understanding of thermospheric winds, as well as efforts for advancing our understanding such winds across local, regional, and global-scales from theoretical, observational, and modeling perspectives.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(29,29,29)"><b><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Index Terms:</font></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(29,29,29)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">3369 Thermospheric dynamics</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(29,29,29)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">2447 Modeling and forecasting</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(29,29,29)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">7894 Instruments and techniques</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(29,29,29)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">7944 Ionospheric effects on radio waves</font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Looking forward to your contributions in our AGU session. </font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(20,20,20)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Please note that the abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 23:59 EDT/03:59 + 1 GMT. </font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Sincerely,</font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Sovit Khadka</font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">P. Dandenault</font></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">A. Gerrard</font></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>