<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">We invite you to submit your abstract to the AGU Union
Session U06 at the Spring AGU meeting in Toronto (May 24-27) -- the deadline
for the abstracts March 4.</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="CM15" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Times"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">FOCUS:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;color:windowtext"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Times;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">Questions that link
together the Sun’s evolution, the future states of the Earth’s atmosphere and
the physical processes common to planetary atmospheres.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">This session focuses on the processes that connect changes
at the solar surface with features in the geospace and planetary environments
that will ultimately lead to a better understanding of climate variability,
and, in fact, of any large-scale complex system. Given the importance of these
issues, a closer interaction between atmospheric, planetary and space
scientists is needed (and supported here) to share information from different
perspectives and evaluate the state of our knowledge and modeling
capabilities. Please join us in an interesting interdisciplinary
interaction.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#5C1564"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">A FEW EXAMPLES OF FOCUS ISSUES:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">-- Chemistry and dynamics of polar vortices on the Earth
and other planets and their role in bringing space weather effects to lower
altitudes <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">-- System-level response of the heliosphere and planetary
environments to solar wind high speed streams, or coronal mass ejections and
resulting long term trends <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">-- Predictions of future (or explanations of past) solar
variability and their impacts at Earth and other planets <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">-- Reasons for the unusual aspects of the current solar
minimum and the associated responses in geospace and other planetary
environments<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">-- New information about long-term space and atmospheric
climate trends <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">-- New insights about how solar irradiance changes are
amplified to drive climate variability at the Earth and nonlinear aspects at
other planets. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="CM15" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Times">INVITED PROGRAM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">Invited speakers (listed below) have agreed to summarize
the state of our knowledge in key areas and attempt to address questions about:
the future of our Sun, long-term predictions of solar variability, space
weather effects at Earth and other planets, response of the neutral and ionized
components of Earth and planetary atmospheres to solar variability, and the
ability of current models to assess the consequences for Earth's climate as
well as the evolution of planetary environments.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#5C1564"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">Ted Shepherd<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">Marv Geller<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">Scott Bailey<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">Joanna Haigh<o:p></o:p></p><p class="CM15" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Times">Dan Baker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">Chris Russell<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">Sam Yee</p>
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